“Integration of Selves” by Gillian Barlow & Carrie Nassif
This white-out poem is taken from p. 56 of Virgina Woolf’s Orlando, published in 1994 by Chancellor Press. Gillian and I did a lot of experimental poetry using this as our source and this was the favorite of mine.
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Gillian Barlow Artist Statement:
Gillian is a writer and architect who works in Australian Aboriginal communities and on accessible
housing. She writes experimentally – in ficto-criticism and zuihitsu. She has twice attended the
AROHO womens’ writing retreat where she has made the most fantastic friendships and had
unforgettable writing conversations. Her book (as yet untitled) is to be published with Saddle Road
Press at the end of 2016. She has had a number of short stories published in anthologies and her
work was featured in the “Off the Margins”.
Carrie Nassif Artist Statement:
I am, in nearly alphabetical order: an advocate, a bisexual in a same-sex marriage, a cat AND dog person,
emotionally tender and goofy, an introverted but loyal friend, a liberal secular humanist, a mentor and
supervisor, a mother of two, the oldest of seven, a poet, a photographer, a psychologist, a privileged
white ally, a recovering intellectualizer, and a would-be memoirist living the rural Midwest.
