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What the Water Gave Me

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE 2010

 

SHORTLISTED FOR WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2011

 

“Pascale’s poems are as fresh as paint, and make you look all over again at Frida and her brilliant and tragic life.” Jackie Kay, The Observer “Poems about paintings rarely set off fireworks, but this is ekphrasis with a difference: Petit speaks in Kahlo’s voice with eerie believability, animating her paintings with a behind-the-scenes narrative of romantic and reproductive woes, chronic pain after a bus crash, and the occasional moment of joy. ‘Whenever we make love, you say/it’s like fucking a crash –/I bring the bus with me into the bedroom’ (‘Remembrance of an Open Wound’)” Time Out London

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Weight 0.160 kg
Dimensions 220 × 140 × 6 mm
ISBN

9781854115157

Cover

Paperback

Publication Year

2010