The pages of this anthology are filled with personal essays and poems of thoughtful musings, raw memories, and humorous self-examinations by authors and poets who have been labelled by the world—teachers, parents, and peers—as shy. Here, they proudly own up to their shyness, and their message is clear: they don’t need to be “cured”! Why should they, when nearly half of North Americans consider themselves shy? Editors Naomi K. Lewis and Rona Altrows have enlisted writers from across the continent and have created a moving anthology that will appeal to all, either because we are shy or because we know someone who is.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2013.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 810.8/0353
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780888647450 0888646704
- LCCN
- PR9197.35.B38
- LCCN Item number
- S593eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xiii, 171 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00910140 (OCoLC)865475103 (CaOOCEL)446689
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Foreword | Lewis & Altrows 12
- Acknowledgements 14
- Sometimes a Voice (2) | D. McKay 18
- Silentium | Heighton 19
- On Shyness and Stuttering | Haynes 20
- The Shy | Van Buren 28
- I Couldn't Reveal | Woo 29
- Say Water | Lewis 30
- affect Thrum | Simpson 44
- that animal | Chan 45
- Creepmouse Manifesto | Stopforth 46
- Fisher Woman | Hansen 52
- The Culture of Shyness | Boyd 53
- Under the I | Musil 54
- High School Shyku | Roadhouse 59
- Young Expressions | Krakow 60
- My Dear X | Zotova 73
- Change Room | Meyer 76
- Cloak of Invisibility | Wong 77
- Shy and I | Sharpe 82
- Shades and Shyness | van Herk 84
- Secret Self | Greene 92
- Disturbing the Universe | Greene 93
- On Mingling | Houle 95
- Good for Olivier | Altrows 97
- Insecurity | Maylor 102
- How to be shy | Ryan 103
- Shybrightly | Lemay 108
- Stage Fright | Welburn 115
- As I Stand Up Here Reading, Fear Holds My Hand | C. MacKay 117
- Are You an Introvert? Take This Simple Quiz | Holm 118
- a more blissful orbit | S. McKay 120
- Women Friends | Campbell 121
- Shy - 10 Ways | Wangersky 123
- Drunk Judgement | Heighton 136
- When Love Was Grey & Timid | Iskov 137
- Redder Than a Canadian Sunset | Limbert 138
- Laundry Duty | Duggan 144
- to the red-haired girl on eighth | Chan 145
- Common Loon | Miller 147
- Crosswalk | Houle 155
- Watching My Lover | Crozier 156
- Other People's Agony | Gelinas 158
- It's Okay that Late at Night | Bell 168
- Amongst the Unseen and Unheard | Bateman 170
- Contributors 180
- Permissions 188
- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press 193
