Venus as a bear / Capildeo Vahni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Capildeo, Vahni, 1973- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Poetry.

Animals.

Caribbean poetry (English).

Caribbean poetry (English)--21st century.

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

111 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Press Limited, 2018.

Summary:

Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea, thinghood, metaphor, description, and dance. They tend toward, and tend to, the inanimate and non-human, tenderly disclosing their forms of sentience: We have feelings for creatures, objects and places, but where do these affinities come from? How do things, as things, affect us, remain mysterious while making themselves known? For Capildeo answers formed at their own pace, while waiting for lambing at a friend's farm; exploring the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; criss-crossing the British Isles with the Out of Bounds poetry project; or hearing of Africa and the Romans in Scotland, of Guyana and Shakespeare, while standing over-the-boots deep in a freezing sea off the coast of Wales. Many of the poems respond to real places, objects and people, as investigations, meditations, or dedication. They dwell on bodies and dwell in the body, inviting ardent, open forms of reading, in the spirit of their composition. Book jacket.

Contents:

Creatures

Shameless acts of ekphrasis

Langues / Tongues

Sea here

Some things

Like...like...

Music / Avant toute chose.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1784105546

9781784105549

OCLC:

1006302501