Description
Danielle Pafunda's Spite reimagines Andr Breton's Nadja in conversation with his Communicating Vessels and My Heart Through Which Her Heart Has Passed. Spite speaks through the melancholy bohemian dream girl. No longer gateway to the masculine artist's destiny, Nadja becomes agent of her own evolution. The poems consider what happens when we no longer equate the hospital with the tomb, but understand it as generative site. Nadja rolls her ex-lover on a gurney through a city on fire. She trawls construction sites, nurses' brows, and apple trees. We pick up the tin-can extension, wreck ourselves on the delirious island, consider the dishonest belief that every day must include / pain, and descend a massive swath of silk. Spite has no fear of ugly feelings, nor of wonder.
Excerpts appear at:
Diode Poetry
Typo Magazine
Author: Danielle Pafunda
Publisher: Operating System
Published: 03/04/2020
Pages: 86
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.21d
ISBN13: 9781946031747
ISBN10: 1946031747
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
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