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Fiona Benson Vertigo & Ghost (Paperback). Author: Fiona Benson. Title: Vertigo & Ghost. Format: Paperback. Type: Poetry. Item Weight: 107g. Item Width: 10mm. Item Length: 140mm. Item Height: 211mm. Further DetailsTitle: Vertigo & Ghost Condition: New Subtitle: Poems Author: Fiona Benson Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1324035978 EAN: 9781324035978 ISBN: 9781324035978 Publisher: WW Norton & Co Genre: Poetry & Drama Release Date: 10/25/2022 Description: Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a fierce, electrifying, riveting sequence that exposes Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom women are prey and sex is weaponized. As unflinching, devastating poems of vulnerability and anger confront Zeus with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. In its place, acclaimed poet Fiona Benson reveals a disturbing contemporary world in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily, even hourly, the volume’s second half, Benson shifts to an intimate and lyrical document of depression and family life. These moving poems probe the ambivalent terrain of early motherhood—its anxieties and claustrophobias as well as its gifts of tenderness and love—reclaiming the sanctuary of domestic private life and the right to raise children in peace and safety. Together, these two halves form a complex portrait of modern womanhood.Dynamic in its range and risk, Vertigo & Ghost introduces an important British voice to an American audience, a voice that speaks out with clarity, grace, and bravery against abuse of power. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 211mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 10mm Item Weight: 107g Type: Poetry Release Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
