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Sto caricando le informazioni... Vertigo & Ghostdi Fiona Benson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The first part of this book is brilliant, nightmarish, harrowing, cleverly structured and formally innovative. I found the transition to the second part difficult and I wish I could somehow form a clearer picture of it without the memory of the Zeus poems lowering. Still the most compelling collection I have read this year. ( ) This really, REALLY knocked me for a loop, Fiona Benson's [Vertigo & Ghost], which was both amazing and totally harrowing. The first half is like the dark side of all those great Greek myth retellings—a cycle of poems about Zeus in which he is (as he was), a rapist and predator who eventually meets his own violent fate. The second half is presumably autobiographical, about sadness and the natural world and childbirth and the terrible places the mind goes when you pay attention to what's going on in the world when you have small children in your care. There's a good amount of violence against women and children and even some animals here—none of it gratuitous, it's all appropriate to what she's got to say—and it's hard reading. But also often beautiful, and incredibly rewarding if you can handle it. She's a fantastic poet. "Fly" is one of those things where a poem fits my skin absolutely and precisely at this moment, and I am copying it out at least twice (my copy is a library book). This is wonderful, dark, intense stuff. It begins with a run of poems about Zeus, as a murderer, rapist, toxic male. Then a looser collection much of which is about having children and all the worry it brings. It's unflinching and some of it very upsetting and emotional. I'm going to be dipping back in and out of this frequently. Almost all of the poetry I had read up until now has been contemplative and meditative on landscape, life and other matters that have trouble the poet in question. Vertigo & Ghost is utterly different to anything I have read poetry-wise. Fiona Benson's new collection is divided into two parts, but before that begins with a poem called Ace of Bass. This concerns some girls on a tennis court who can feel the hormones coursing through themselves as they awaken sexually. Hormones poured into me Like an incredible chemical cocktail The first part consists of 30 odd poems about Zeus. These are powerful, visceral prose that portrays him as a serial rapist, where woman are prey and sex is weaponised. The anger in these poems is quite something, but it is a response to the modern world where women are still subject to personal attacks on a daily basis. The second half of the book is a much more personal reflection on her life, with poems on family, depression and the delights and fears of motherhood. It is a much slower pace unlike the first part that had a great sense of urgency to it, For we are tracks in the dew Vanishing at dawn, We are mist, we are rain, We are gone This is not the easiest read for anyone who, like me, hasn't read much poetry, but these things need to be read. I really liked what they had done with the physical layout of the words for some of the poems, it added a certain amount of dynamics to the page that added to the fieriness of the prose. I much preferred the second half of the book to the first, but it is a book I will be keeping and will read again. My three favourite poems were: Wood Song Almond Blossom Blue Heron
It is the Zeus poems that will get Vertigo & Ghost talked about, but the second part of the book is much more than a coda. Premi e riconoscimenti
"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"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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