| Skin Can Hold Contributor(s): Capildeo, Vahni (Author) |
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ISBN: 178410731X ISBN-13: 9781784107314 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $14.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Vahni Capildeo, author of Measures of Expatriation (Forward Prize, 2016), returns with a third Carcanet volume, Skin Can Hold. The collection marks an adventurous departure for a pen-and-paper poet. These texts are the fruit of collaborative experiments in theatre, dance and other performance, drawing on burlesque and mime as well as Capildeo's fascination with Caribbean masquerade. The poems are astir with voices and bodies usually kept 'between the lines' of poetry: a weeping poltergeist disrupting the decorum of a lyric; polyglot workmen along an ivory-towercity road. Novels are turned inside out to become dramas of sleaze and surveillance. |