Birthing History - Couverture souple

Gowrishankar, Uma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909849367 ISBN 13 : 9781909849365

Editeur : Leaky Boot Press, 2017

Synopsis

Birthing history is a slow process that takes place in the forlorn landscape of human memory before mythicized in the collective consciousness of a community. This collection of poems explores how language undertakes this by centring experience and colonizing the mind. Words fan out of the page, escape out of a sealed mouth to scald a territory, carve a kingdom. And bards swell out of wombs to weave metres of poetry, to barter tales of coffee brewed from flakes of skin. When memory erodes, and attempts to fossilize history, both the personal and the collective fail, words like prayer beads fall in the silence between sounds, in the space bar as the poet keys her poems.

Uma Gowrishankar, an artist and writer, lives in Chennai, South India. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in online journals that include Qaartsiluni, Buddhist Poetry Review, Curio Poetry, Words Dance, Carcinogenic Poetry, Pure Slush and Postcard Shorts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Leaky Boot Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909849367
• ISBN 13: 9781909849365
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible