Vertigo & ghost
Benson, Fiona2019
Book
Total copies: 1
Violence hangs over this book like an electric storm. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, 'Vertigo & Ghost' pitches quickly into a long sequence of graphic, stunning pieces about Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom woman are prey and sex is weaponised. These are frank, brilliant, devastating poems of vulnerability and rage, and as Zeus is confronted with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. A disturbing contemporary world is exposed, in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily - hourly - basis. The book shifts, in its second half, to an intimate and lyrical document of depression and family life.
Main title:
Vertigo & ghost / Fiona Benson.
Author:
Benson, Fiona, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2019.
Collation:
112 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781787330818 (pbk)9781473555945 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
821.9'2821.92
LC class:
PR6102.E677
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
349590