Paperback / softback
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A compelling collection of poems, Late Self-Portraits conveys an intimate description of lives through a collage of portraits and affliction.
Weaving history and the sacred, both intimate and worldly, one encounters a blind Jorge Luis Borges with his mother, a glass confessional in the of Notre Dame Cathedral, Frida Kahlo in Mexico, ghosts, a neurosurgeon's prognosis, and Marie Laveau in New Orleans.
Whether in a field with Joan of Arc, encountering the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, or having dinner with Hades, these are haunting poems of loss and unearthing, equally bold, personal, and tender. From "Dinner with Hades": He shows me a birthday cake, candled.
My name is written in pomegranate seeds. It's like vertigo. Just before he seeks to devour, he halts to birdsong-sound of goldfinch, bluebird, hawk, lilting of sparrows.
Of whippoorwill and dove. Wings flap, so many wings, a cool breeze as leaves unfurl into a once forgotten green and I am back on earth, held in my mother's arms.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:Michigan State University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2022
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- ISBN:9781611864229
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:Michigan State University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781611864229
