| Root Contributor(s): Black, Linda (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848611706 ISBN-13: 9781848611702 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 821.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.19" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.25 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a collection in search of origins, a kind of 'delving', 'trying to get to the bottom of it'. In a series of unsettling prose poems Black offers pieces of a fractured past. The effect is memorable and often menacing, each poem glinting like a sliver from a broken mirror; language enacting the struggle to retrieve and reassemble an unauthorised past. The difficulties of truth finding and telling are explored through shifts in identity and a syntax of qualifications and hesitations where everyday phrases take on a new and frightening resonance. Domestic objects and rituals loom large in the distorted reflections of the poems, conveying a sense of wonderland gone wrong. |
