Author: Margo Button. Published by Ookichan Books, Lantzville, BC., 1996, 1st Edition. SIGNED and Dedicated by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 101 pages.
THE UNHINGING OF WINGS, Poems by Margo Button, is her poetic memoir of losing her son Randall to schizophrenia, and includes three losses...
First to the inner landscape of his mental illness, secondly to the streets, and finally to suicide. "I would have followed you to hell," she writes, in The Unhinging of Wings (Oolichan, 1996). It received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was later adapted to the stage.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Margo Button was born in New Brunswick on April 8, 1938, and has an Honours B.A. from University of Toronto and an M.A. in French literature from UBC. She taught high school in Ottawa for six years and an international schools in Hong Kong, Lebanon and Chile. She has lived in Nanoose Bay, B.C. and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
