Author: PORTER, ANDREA
Title: A Season of Small Insanities (Salt Modern Poets S.)
Description: Salt Publishing, UK, 2009. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9781844715091 80 pages. Available Now. Book Description: These poems introduce voices that clamour to be heard. The language is vibrantly now, the context the everyday but at times things are a little skewed, as if something slightly odd has been glimpsed out of the corner of the eye. The poet inhabits a world where angels comment on tea towels in a gift shop, Medusa travels on the train, Emily Dickinson waits for a phone call, a woman has dinner with Goya's polished skull. However reality is brought sharply into focus by the trafficked east European girl, the Zimbabwean immigrant woman, the carer, the sex chat line worker, the people in the all night petrol station. : Review: The fascinating cut glass surfaces of her work, always tug against an undercurrent of darkness and violence. (Jo Shapcott) : Review: Like her Shaman, Porter draws survivors and ghosts about her, and with a hawk's eye for happenstance of living language, she rewrites myth, catching the white of Shiva's eye, acknowledging both chaos and random kindness, harm and hilarity. She heeds the overlooked - the child contaminated by radiation, the immigrant coaching herself in her new life's story, the girl who gives sales advice on vibrators, the women who sells phone sex, night porters, long distance drivers. For Porter, there is no taboo and this is her poetry's most generous gift. Life is in the detail. Death is in the detail. (Jen Hadfield) Size: 14 x 0.5 x 21.6 cm. 80 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Paperback; ISBN: 1844715094. ISBN/EAN: 9781844715091. Inventory No: F213-1058.

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