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Sylvanian Family
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ISBN10: 191326811X
ISBN13: 9781913268114
Publisher: Bad Betty Press
Published: Jul 30 2020
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781913268114
Publisher: Bad Betty Press
Published: Jul 30 2020
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Reading Summer Young is like folding yourself into a deceptively miniature world, a cat's eye view of a dystopian Wonderland. Here, shoe prints are rabbit snares, a mother is a mountain, the trellis-like family home encompasses a complex ecosystem of cockroaches and fireflies, mice and sea urchins. In this arresting debut, Young invokes the visceral candor of Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas, and confronts trauma with a fierce and virtuosic wit.
Like any good daughter I tie the bedsheetsinto a rope for my fatherto escape the house he set alight
In each poem in Sylvanian Family, Young presents us a set piece for formative experiences to be radically questioned, transformed, reclaimed. Written with bombastic surrealism, the urgency of childhood, and the quiet fury of one's inner animals, Young confronts the disturbed play of the oppressor in order to document and undo their transgressions. A deft personal portrait, with cerebral backflips and left hooks of humour throughout, every poem stings. Antosh Wojcik
In each poem in Sylvanian Family, Young presents us a set piece for formative experiences to be radically questioned, transformed, reclaimed. Written with bombastic surrealism, the urgency of childhood, and the quiet fury of one's inner animals, Young confronts the disturbed play of the oppressor in order to document and undo their transgressions. A deft personal portrait, with cerebral backflips and left hooks of humour throughout, every poem stings. Antosh Wojcik
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