Louie Olsen is a mystic, guru, lumberjack, holistic healer, photographer - and lover of children. Only in the eternal giant Sequoias, in "fotografi" and in the innocence of children can Louie find the perfection and divinity his soul craves. This daring novel, based on the life of a man who lived in California in the first half of the century, enters the head of a pedophile to reveal an enigmatic man who quietly and with a sense of certitude tells his story: of children healed by his herbal medicine; of children photographed by him as they played nude in meadows and streams; of children who were violated by him, often in the subtlest of ways; and of families who not only trusted but defended him when his actions were brought to light.

The Photographer's Sweethearts

Literature & Fiction

Hartog, Diana

United States

Overlook Books

Louie Olsen, a child molester living in California during the first half of the century, describes his obsession with perfection

Hartog's first collection of poetry is a marvellous, luminous book from a writer with a sure wit, an abundance of feeling and a profound sense of the absurdity and rightness of life. Winner of the 1983 Pat Lowther Award.

Matinee Light

Poetry

Coach House Books

Diana Hartog writes as if she has been prying open a nest of animal dreams all the beasts in this bestiary have been caught without their shells on. The writing is sly, charming, wicked and funny. Every once in a while, Hartog catches you off guard by injecting an element of pain that leaves you breathless. Stung. This book should not be read while bathing in honey. Read first. Bathe second. The order is imperative. Polite to Bees will tell you why.’ Timothy Findley
'With grace, compassion, humour, with a deft imagination and exquisite language, Diana Hartog has made a lovely contribution in one of the most delightful literary genres that exists. This bestiary is the work of a master sorceress, and the animals she’s conjured have the capacity to teach us all a lesson or two about the ways of humanity.’ Bradford Morrow
’Marvellous tact informs these animations, which arise from our natures and compose wild pedagogies of the imagination.’ Sharon Thesen

Polite to Bees

?like Emily Dickinson, Hartog melds the ordinary with the visionary.? ? Joseph Stroud, author of Below Cold Mountain and Country of Light Ink Monkey is Diana Hartog?s first book of poetry in more than thirteen years, and her patience is the reader?s reward. In these spare and elegant poems ? not a word out of place, not an unnecessary syllable ? Hartog turns a perceptive eye toward the stories of seemingly ordinary things, of overlooked moments and long-closed rooms. Whether she is writing about jellyfish, the desert, awkward silences that end a relationship, struggles of creativity, or Japanese prints, her poems are astute and beautiful. Something ?up his sleeve,? as when a man in the West simply leans against a wall with his hands in his pockets and a woman walks by, her starched French cuff dangling an abalone button blinded with thread. The Muse leaning also, towards the East and the past: the poetic looseness of kimono sleeves, damp with tears, in the Japanese canon of love. Sweet partings, trysts, exposing always the wrist, its pale throat, the heartbeat's muted throb at the fork of the two blue rivers ? from ?Sleeves? ?Give Diana Hartog a subject ? monkeys, frogs, jellyfish, or a Japanese printmaker on the Tokaido road ? and she will play riffs that dazzle ?. With an adhesive poet's tongue, Hartog picks through her seemingly endless erudition for the humorous bits ? Leda in a hotel room leaving her feathers in the ashtray ? and yet she can crack the heart, as in the image 'the grass ? whipped every-which-way as if wild with grief. ?'? ? Rosemary Sullivan

Ink Monkey: Poems

Brick Books

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The Photographer's Sweethearts

The Photographer's Sweethearts

Matinee Light

Polite to Bees

Ink Monkey: Poems