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The Vivian Poems Street Photographer Vivian Maier

By: Bruce Rice
Narrated by: Zoé Beaulieu Prpick
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These poems peel back the layers of suburban life and the "American Dream". Vivian Maier was a self-taught street photographer who worked as a nanny for wealthy employers in New York and Chicago. The poet imagines her as a documentarian who is compassionate, abrasive, and meditative, while her subjects provide their own narrative. More than anything, the poems are a response to her work, which is all we have that comes directly from her. It is a deliberate challenge to the “mystery nanny” she is reduced to in much of the constructed narrative of her life.

©2020 Bruce Rice (P)2020 Bruce Rice
Canadian Poetry World Literature
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