Cane. Corn & Gully
Author(s): Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
Poetry | 2023 Folio Prize short list
The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory – whether it’s the brief, urgent lives of the first section, ‘Insect Love Songs’, the abrupt, anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school, as remembered in ‘Boarding-School Tales’, or parenting’s day-by-day shifts through love and fear, hurt and healing, in ‘Daughter Mother’.
Telling uncomfortable truths, going deep into male and female drives and desires, our most tender and vulnerable places, and speaking of them in frank, unshrinking ways – these poems are afraid, certainly, but also beautiful, resolute and brave.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Out-Spoken Press
- : 01 November 2022
- : books
Special Fields
- : Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 821.92