Midwest Book Review - January, 2007
“Lillian Moats is a writer, artist and filmmaker whose animated art films have won more than 40 distinguished awards in festivals around the world. Speak, Hands: A Meditation on Memory and the Unconscious is a kind of literary memoir in which she questions the very nature of memory while conveying her extraordinary personal and creative struggle to express her artistic conceptions. Moats employs a complex narrative structure using four inner voices which challenge the distinctions between mind and body, subject and object, conscioiusness and the unconscious. A simply fascinating read from beginning to end, Speak, Hands is intensely personal, intellectually stimulating, emotionally rewarding, and a uniquely crafted materpiece of creative non-fiction. Also very highly recommended are her two earlier books: Legacy of Shadows (Three Arts Press, 1999) and The Gate of Dreams (Cranbrook Press, 1993, 1996) both of which are available from Three Arts Press.”
Margaret Lane
MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
January, 2007
Three Arts Press is an expression of creative independence and
interdependence - independence from the world of commercial publishing and
interdependence among creative colleagues who have worked together for many
years. It aspires to the standards of fine bookmaking and design once
practiced by artisan presses.