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The Handless Maiden
Vicki Feaver
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Description for The Handless Maiden
Paperback. Features the poems that deal with such emotions as - love, grief, rage, and loneliness. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 96. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
The poems in this extraordinary book deal in familiar emotions - love, grief, rage, loneliness - but do so with such a fresh and fierce eye, such lived intensity, that the familiar is given again the force to touch our nerves, to seem raw and new. Some of the poems are based in the territory of home and childhood, others move into that unnerving space where the safe and polite world plunges over a ledge - into anarchic revisions of what is possible or acceptable. They treat myths and fairy stories, or even paintings, not as fictions but as part ... Read more
The poems in this extraordinary book deal in familiar emotions - love, grief, rage, loneliness - but do so with such a fresh and fierce eye, such lived intensity, that the familiar is given again the force to touch our nerves, to seem raw and new. Some of the poems are based in the territory of home and childhood, others move into that unnerving space where the safe and polite world plunges over a ledge - into anarchic revisions of what is possible or acceptable. They treat myths and fairy stories, or even paintings, not as fictions but as part ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224090049
SKU
KKD0003345
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Vicki Feaver
Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943 and studied at Durham and University College, London. She has published three collections: Close Relatives (1981), The Handless Maiden (1994), winner of the Heinemann Award and shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and The Book of Blood (2006), which was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and theCosta Poetry Award. The Handless Maiden ... Read more
Reviews for The Handless Maiden
This is a rich, disturbing and vibrant collection of poems...confident, mature and visionary, creating an artistic identity which a great many novelists could only dream of
Michael Bracewell
Guardian
Whether she is 'in search of the edge' or dancing 'out over the edge' Feaver brings areas of female sexuality and its taboos to the public imagination of ... Read more
Michael Bracewell
Guardian
Whether she is 'in search of the edge' or dancing 'out over the edge' Feaver brings areas of female sexuality and its taboos to the public imagination of ... Read more