Frissure
By: a collaborative work between Kathleen Jamie and Brigid Collins
Contributors: Collins, Brigid, author
Publisher: Polygon
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781846972751
Subjects: Healing; Poetry; Breast cancer in art; Poetry and the arts
Description: 'Frissure' is an exquisite collection of prose-poems and illustrative work exploring healing, mortality, intimacy, memory and the natural world. It is about the intimate process of looking and seeing as it passes from one person - a cancer patient - looking at herself, from being 'examined' by a surgeon, to being looked at by an artist. In each situation a transformation occurs. The gaze of the patient on her on body and its post-operative scarring is objectified by that of the surgeon assessing the success of his work.