Utter - Couverture souple

Capildeo, Vahni

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845232135 ISBN 13 : 9781845232139

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In Utter the reader is transported by image and sound into a universe where there appear to be no limits to what the imagination is capable, and Vahni Capildeo relishes the freedoms inherent in such a world. Old boundaries come down: between the past and present, between human and animal, animate and inanimate, between the Caribbean and the global elsewhere, between the experienced world and the world of books.

Rooted in an energetic sense of history, the author's vision remains scrupulously contemporary, wholly engaged in our present moment with poems triggered by the earthquake in Haiti, the politics of the globalized Antilles, and the islands industrial and agricultural contradictions. And even when the past is evoked, it remains wonderfully modern: dead soldiers welcoming a modern English apartment-dweller; Beowulf-era abandoned women pinned and pining on islands or beneath trees and recent migrants traveling their transatlantic journeys. And for all this, there live moments of community and tenderness, beauty and humour, all borne by her witty, prodigious intelligence.

This is a book that rewards multiple readings, for at each reading some new untold treasure is sure to be discovered and rediscovered, making it a book as unexpected and as compendious as life.

Biographie de l'auteur

Vahni Capildeo is the author of the poetry collections "Dark & Unaccustomed Words," "No Traveller Returns," "Person Animal Figure," and "Undraining"" Sea," and her work has appeared in the anthologies "Identity Parade," "In the Telling," and "The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse." She is a contributing editor and the UK agent and representative for the "Caribbean Review of Books" and a member of the International Advisory Board for the "Journal of Indo-Caribbean Studies."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1845232135
• ISBN 13: 9781845232139
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 78