Hand & Skull

Zoë Brigley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

64 Seiten

2019
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-472-7 (ISBN)

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Zoë Brigley’s third collection draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the harshness of rural life as well as on her later immersion in the American landscape and her perception of a sense of hollowness in particular communities there. Other strands include the horror of violence, especially violence towards women.

Zoë Brigley’s third collection Hand & Skull draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the harshness of rural life as well as on her later immersion in the American landscape and her perception of a sense of hollowness in particular communities there. Other strands include the horror of violence, especially violence towards women, contrasted with poems which offer comfort by working as beatitudes or commentaries on life as it exists now, seeking a way of being that is more beautiful, often in relation to her children. There are also epistolary poems, letters to or from real, imagined and remembered women like the artist Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hardy’s Tess, and Edna Pontellier from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Zoë Brigley (Thompson) grew up in Caerphilly in the Rhymney Valley of Wales, and is now an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University in the US. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and received a Welsh Academy bursary in 2005. Her first book of poems, The Secret (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008. Her second collection, Conquest (Bloodaxe Books, 2012), was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, as was her third collection, Hand & Skull (Bloodaxe Books, 2019). A book of her non-fiction essays, Notes from a Swing State, was published by Parthian Books in 2019. She also researches violence against women, and is co-editor of a volume of scholarly essays, Feminism, Literature, and Rape Narratives (Routledge, 2010). She co-edited the anthology 100 Poems to Save the Earth (Seren Books, 2021) with Kristian Evans.

9 Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O’Keeffe, Hands and Horse Skull
11 Blind Horse Elegy
13 Poem for Emily Doe
14 Undressing Poem
15 Letter from Georgia O’Keeffe
16 Poem on the Edge
17 Letter from a Sheep Skull
18 Dryad
19 Dressing Poem
20 Sonnet for the Hole in the Glass
21 Letter from Tess Durbeyﬁeld
22 Forgetting Poem

25 Victoria Brookland: Horse
27 Letter to a Horse’s Head
28 Poem with a Least Favourite Dress
29 Revolver
30 Western Union
31 Poem with a Whalebone Crinoline
32 The Eye in the Wall
33 The Shave
34 Hand & Breast
35 Post Colonial
36 Beatitudes for the Women
38 Poem with Seams

39 Victoria Brookland: Vésuviennes
40 Letter to Leda on Getting Married
41 Poem with a Wedding Dress
42 Swan
43 Rare
44 Syringe
45 Round Trip
46 White Patio with a Red Door
47 Vésuviennes
48 Poem with a High Waist
49 The Amish Roofers
50 Poem with Stockings and Suspenders

51 Victoria Brookland: I too am a rare pattern
53 Letter from Edna Pontellier
54 Star / Sun / Snow
56 Eagle Poem
57 Name Poem
58 Poem with a Mourning Dress
59 Letter from Nemi
61 Beatitude for the Meek
62 He Has a John Clare Chin
63 Tree with Cut Limb
64 My Last Beatitude
65 Hand & Skull

69 Notes
70 Acknowledgements
71 Thanks

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2019
Verlagsort	Tyne and Wear
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-78037-472-0 / 1780374720
ISBN-13	978-1-78037-472-7 / 9781780374727
Zustand	Neuware