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Smoothie / Claudine Toutoungi.
Van Pelt Library PR6120.O89 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toutoungi, Claudine, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--21st century.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 75 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd, 2017.
- Summary:
- Smoothie is Claudine Toutoungi's debut collection of poems. It takes a tender, exuberant and deliciously dark look at our desire to be heard, whatever the cost; a desire that can be treacherous, comical and sometimes - often enough to fend off despair - fulfilled. Smoothie plots the wayward wanderings of a beguiling cast of misfits - hotel eavesdroppers, city interlopers, lone wolves, phantom bird-watchers, disaffected language robots and triumphant piano-swallowers - as they try to express themselves. The poems are candid without being confessional: the poet's 'I' encompasses the reader. Language's smooth surface bubbles up as Toutoungi's characters reveal their peculiarly twenty-first-century disorientations, riffing off loneliness, authenticity and heartbreak as they go. --Publisher's website viewed 04 Dec, 2017.
- ISBN:
- 9781784104122
- 1784104124
- OCLC:
- 988381512
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