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The Book of Blood
Vicki Feaver
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Description for The Book of Blood
Paperback. Records the dichotomy of human experience. This book deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. It also reveals an intense involvement with nature and a capacity for healing and love. There are intimate personal poems reflecting on relationships with people and creatures; poems which enter the lives of real and imaginary characters. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
Split between dark and light, this book records the dichotomy of human experience with unflinching force and clarity. It deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. But it also reveals an intense involvement with nature and a capacity for healing and love. There are intimate personal poems reflecting on relationships with people and creatures; poems which enter the lives of real and imaginary characters, Keats and Medea and Blodeuwedd, for example; and also poems which engage with paintings and political events.
Set in a territory which connects child with adult, myth with reality, the personal with the universal, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224076845
SKU
V9780224076845
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Ref
99-94
About Vicki Feaver
Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943 and studied at Durham and University College, London. She has published two previous collections, Close Relatives (1981) and The Handless Maiden (1994).
Reviews for The Book of Blood
Everyday subjects resonate with truth and humour, but beneath the beautiful words are deep, dark and shocking truths
The Herald
Violence stalks the book
Colin Waters
Sunday Herald
Vicki Feaver's poems always come back to contemporary relationships - not so much domestic as domestic gothic, where the women are sensual and murderous. These are powerfully ... Read more
The Herald
Violence stalks the book
Colin Waters
Sunday Herald
Vicki Feaver's poems always come back to contemporary relationships - not so much domestic as domestic gothic, where the women are sensual and murderous. These are powerfully ... Read more