Anatomy of an Injury
Publisher: Inanna Publications
Published: Jun 08, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781771335171
Description: "Bringing together the themes of death, of gender and sexuality, the poet creates a speaker whose language and experience, linked from poem to poem, reflects the true complexity of a woman's perspective. Death is a prevalent theme; anxiety, fear and paranoia simmer throughout the poems. Regret, too, is a recurrent theme, as previous experience defines us even by its absence. The societal construct of womanhood, questions of aging, and female stereotypes are opportunities for an analysis of women's roles and the speaker's need to subvert modern ideals of femininity and sexuality. The poems often employ satire or self-parody and wry humour to suggest that a woman's understanding of her options in the twenty-first century, in light of the many waves of feminism, is always in flux and always challenging."--
Notes: Source title: Anatomy of an Injury (Inanna Poetry & Fiction)