Vertigo & ghost : poems / Fiona Benson.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2021Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First American editionDescription: 94 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393541861
- 039354186X
- Vertigo and ghost
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Main Library | NonFiction | 821.92 B474 | Available | 33111010748396 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a fierce, electrifying, riveting sequence that exposes Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom women are prey and sex is weaponized. As unflinching, devastating poems of vulnerability and anger confront Zeus with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. In its place, acclaimed poet Fiona Benson reveals a disturbing contemporary world in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily, even hourly, basis.
In the volume's second half, Benson shifts to an intimate and lyrical document of depression and family life. These moving poems probe the ambivalent terrain of early motherhood--its anxieties and claustrophobias as well as its gifts of tenderness and love--reclaiming the sanctuary of domestic private life and the right to raise children in peace and safety. Together, these two halves form a complex portrait of modern womanhood.
Dynamic in its range and risk, Vertigo & Ghost introduces an important British voice to an American audience, a voice that speaks out with clarity, grace, and bravery against abuse of power.
"Winner of the 2019 Forward and Roehampton Prizes, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into an "addictive, thrilling, sickening" (John Self, Guardian) sequence of graphic, stunning pieces about Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom woman are prey and sex is weaponized. These are frank, brilliant, devastating poems of vulnerability and rage. In the book's second half, acclaimed poet Fiona Benson shifts to an intimate and lyrical document of depression, family life, and early motherhood. Vertigo & Ghost introduces an important British voice to an American audience, a voice that speaks out with clarity, grace, and bravery against abuse of power"-- Provided by publisher.
Ace of Bass -- Zeus -- [Zeus] days I talked with Zeus -- [archives] Zeus on parole -- [archives] Zeus given light sentence -- [personal] Rape is rarely what you think -- [surveillance: track and field] -- [surveillance: bull kneeling] -- [Zeus] / Like These Magazines -- [personal: speedo] -- [Zeus: anatomical dolls] -- [personal] He tracked me down -- [transformation: Nemesis] -- [Zeus: Danae] -- [Zeus: Semele] -- [transformation: Io] -- [archives] The day Zeus came to the safe-house -- [Zeus] WHAT I LOVE -- [Zeus addendum] -- [forensics] -- [Zeus: or, the problem with God] -- [transformation: Cyane] -- [not-Zeus: Medusa 1] -- [not-Zeus: Medusa 2] -- [not-Zeus: Medusa 3] -- [closed circuit] Zeus in the electric chair -- [surveillance] Zeus under sedation -- [transformation: Daphne] -- [screenplay] -- [Zeus: oubliette] -- [surveillance] Zeus hooked up -- [transformation: Callisto] -- [surveillance] Zeus watching carp -- [surveillance] Thunder, immanence -- [Daughter of Zeus: Pallas Athena] -- [votive] Hera vouchsafe -- [translations from the annals: Ganymede] -- Dear Comrade of the boarding house -- Two Sparrows -- Marcela Sonnets 3 & 4 -- Almond Blossom -- Fly -- Toad -- After the Flood -- Haruspex -- Beatitude -- White Nose Disease -- Ectopic / Yellow Seahorse -- Blue Heron -- Song for the Rabbit Man -- Wildebeest -- Afterbirth -- Placenta -- In the milk days of your sister -- Daughter Drowning -- Ruins -- Termite Queen -- Moon -- Cells -- Love Poem, Lucca -- Portrait of our Daughters -- Meningitis -- Heavenly Bodies -- Village --Hide and Seek -- Wood Song -- Mexican Free-Tail Bats -- Eurofighter Typhoon.