Measures of Expatriation [electronic resource]
Vahni Capildeo2016
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Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and Shortlisted for the T.S.
Eliot Prize (2016) .
In Measures of Expatriation Vahni Capildeo's poems and prose-poems speak of the
complex alienation of the expatriate, and address wider issues around identity
in contemporary Western society. Born in Trinidad and resident in the UK,
Capildeo rejects the easy depiction of a person as a neat, coherent whole -
'pure is a strange word' - embracing instead a pointilliste self, one grounded
in complexity. In these texts sense and syntax are disrupted; languages rub and
intersect; dream sequences, love poems, polylogues and borrowed words build into
a precarious self-assemblage. 'Cliché', she writes, 'is spitting into the sea',
and in this book poetry is still a place where words and names, with their power
to bewitch and subjugate, may be disrupted, reclaimed. The politics of the body,
and cultures of sexual objectification, gender inequality and casual racism, are
the borders acr...
Main title:
Measures of Expatriation [electronic resource] / Vahni Capildeo
Author:
Vahni Capildeo, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Poetry, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (128 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781784101695
Language:
English
BRN:
435677
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