Description
Title: Human Looking
Author: JACKSON ANDY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2021
Imprint: GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING COMP
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to correct . They range widely, finding figures to identify with in mythology and history, art and photography, poetry and fiction. A number of poems deal with unsettling extremes of embodiment, and with violence against disabled people. Others emerge out of everyday life, and the effects of illness, pain and prejudice. The strength of the speaking voice is remarkable, as is its capacity for empathy and love. I, this wonderful catastrophe , the poet has Mary Shelley s monstrous figure declare. The use of unusual and disjunctive or deformed poetic forms, adds to the emotional impact of the poems.
ISBN: 9781925818857
Weight: 600gr
Dimension: 210mm X 148mm