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Overview

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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781848611702
  • ISBN-10: 1848611706
  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Publish Date: June 2011
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.19 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
  • Page Count: 80

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