Chatelaine

ChatelaineCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781925336450 Year: 2017 Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Description: Chatelaine is a collection of poems peopled by characters who, like a family portrait, resemble one another in foxed, latent ways. Their voices stalk outside of time and place, inhabiting the genres of riddle, fragment, confession, lyric and ekphrasis, and returning to images of metamorphosis and occupation. The poems present a mossy, alien cosmology where

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925336450
Year: 2017
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing


Description:


Chatelaine is a collection of
poems peopled by characters who, like a family portrait, resemble one another
in foxed, latent ways. Their voices stalk outside of time and place, inhabiting
the genres of riddle, fragment, confession, lyric and ekphrasis, and returning
to images of metamorphosis and occupation. The poems
present a mossy, alien cosmology where aeroplanes are forest-like and
'signifiers turn to pulp outside the window'. They also express a language and
mood inherited through genealogy, an ethics of kin. With influences
from Kabir to New Wave Australian cinema, Lucie Brock-Broido to Oceanic
sculpture, they ask: who does the poem belong to? Who lives there and who comes
to visit?