Voodoo Inverso

von Mark Wagenaar

80 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In this debut collection, Voodoo Inverso, Mark Wagenaar composes a startling mystical imagism and sets it to music, using self-portraits to explore differing physical and spiritual landscapes. He uses a variety of personae--a victim of sex trafficking in Amsterdam, a fichera dancer, a portrait haunted by Dante, a carillonneur of starlight, an elephant in pink slippers remembering its beloved--to silhouette the intricacies and frailties of the body and the world. In a series of 'gospels' and 'histories'--such as the poems 'The History of Ecstasy' and 'Moth Hour Gospel'--he shines a light on the possibilities of transcendence and transfiguration, weaving together memory and loss with desire and hope.

• Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Lyrik, Poesie
• ISBN: 9780299288143
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2012
• Größe: 224 x 150 mm
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press