Born in Los Angeles November 2,1942, Janine Canan is a Stanford graduate who received her M.D. from New York University School of Medicine and is a practicing psychiatrist in Sonoma, California. She is the author of many books of poetry including In the Palace of Creation: Selected Works 1969-1999 (Scars 2003), and Messages from Amma: In the Language of the Heart, sayings of the Indian "hugging saint" (Celestial Arts 2004), selected for "Best Spiritual Books of 2004." Her books Changing Woman (Scars 2000) and her translations of German Jewish post Else Lasker-Schüler, Star in My Forehead (Holy Cow! 2000) received commendation from Small Press review, Book Sense, and City Lights Books. Canan's work is anthologized in dozens of anthologies. Her autobiography was published in Contemporary Authors. Canan compiled the last poems of avant-garde poet Lynn Lonidier in The Rhyme of the Ag-ed Mariness (Station Hill 2000). Her anthology She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets (The Crossing 1989) received the Koppelman Award. Earlier books include Her Magnificent Body: New & Selected Poems (ManRoot 1986) ; Shapes of Self (Emily Dickinson 1982), Who Buried the Breast of Dreams and Daughter (Emily Dickinson 1981), and Of Your Seed (Oyez 1977). Chapbooks include Love Enter, Goddess Poems, and The Hunger. Currently poetry editor at AwakenedWoman.com, Canan has taught in high schools, at the Center for Integration, Small Press Traffic, and University of California at Berkeley.
From the description of Papers of Janine Canan, 1960-2004. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 230937715
