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A Violent Streak
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ISBN13: 9781554554461
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Published: Aug 8 2018
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
These poems travel along a ragged b-line from the banks of the frozen Yukon River to the sun-blasted hinterlands of Barcelona, and all the way to the cat's cradle' of the ring-roads in Beijing. In A Violent Streak, anxiety, ritual, the inertia of family trauma, expatriatism and sexual politics collide, testing the virtue of flight, haste and distraction. Here the poet compulsively overhauls and fractures her sense of self, revealing that between blithe stabs at domesticity and endless flat shares, the fabled Spanish light, like powdered glass, begins to wear her down...
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