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Deformations

  • ISBN-13: 9781784108984
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Sasha Dugdale
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 4 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 16/06/2021
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 104 pages Weight: 140g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Deformations includes two large-scale works related in their preoccupation with biographical and mythical narrative. 'Welfare Handbook' explores the life and art of Eric Gill, the well-known English letter cutter, sculptor and cultural figure, who is known to have sexually abused his daughters. The poem draws on material from Gill's letters, diaries, notes and essays as part of a lyrical exploration of the conjunction between aesthetics, subjectivity and violence. 'Pitysad' is a series of simultaneously occurring fragments composed around themes and characters from Homer's Odyssey. It considers how trauma is disguised and deformed through myth and art. Acting as a bridge between these two works is a series of individual poems on the creation and destruction of cultural and mythical conventions.
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