*Retroviral

Veer Books, London 2018

Bussey-Chamberlain, Prudence
*Retroviral
Veer Books, London 2018
Reihe: Veer 088
Größe: 8°
Seitenzahl: ca. 63 ungezählte Seiten
Einband: OBrosch.
Vorl. Spr. Orig.: Englisch
Monographie
Gedichte/Prosagedichte
Buch
Chamberlain has a rare and piercing ability to invigorate the 'personal as political' from a solemn, facile or familiar truism into a more uncomfortably playful, prickling and vulnerable wit. In *retroviral, a space of bodies abstracted in textual bodies, the reader finds flippancy and the terminal quarrelling with mortality and the dress-down desperation of casual. In this daring and nervous agitation of text, poems itch beneath a shadow of waiting: the threat of infection, a change in government, the growth of a relationship, and the ability to understand any of it through, from, and as, words. This is a poetics that braids as in unravels
found material walls up against the unfounded 'I' which imagines the infected 'eye' and then - through gaps, erasure, fear and anxiety - travels into versions of lyric proximity. Bodies recognise connection, desire finds shape, words are blocked or rush into new meaning and, with lacerating humour, Chamberlain begins to piece together a tender panic of intimacy, one that is 'contained & overwhelming / in plasterboard and continual repairs'. David Spittle

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