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Fiona Benson

Autor(a) de Vertigo & Ghost

7+ Works 111 Membros 5 Críticas

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Obras por Fiona Benson

Vertigo & Ghost (2019) 59 exemplares
Bright Travellers (2014) 22 exemplares
Ephemeron (2022) 17 exemplares
Faber New Poets 1 (2009) 9 exemplares
Bioluminescent Baby (2021) 2 exemplares
Addicted to Brightness (2006) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Granta 144: Generic Love Story (2018) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female

Membros

Críticas

For me marginally less successful than 'Vertigo and Ghost'. The same problems with structure and at times incongruity, except at a relatively facile level, between the sections. Again I felt the most interesting part of the book was the reimagining of greek myth, centred this time around Pasiphaë. But even here the verse form is generally less convincing and at times lacks facility and fluency. So a slight disappointment. Nevertheless always interesting.
 
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djh_1962 | Nov 13, 2022 |
The first part of this book is brilliant, nightmarish, harrowing, cleverly structured and formally innovative. I found the transition to the second part difficult and I wish I could somehow form a clearer picture of it without the memory of the Zeus poems lowering. Still the most compelling collection I have read this year.
 
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djh_1962 | 3 outras críticas | Nov 13, 2022 |
This really, REALLY knocked me for a loop, Fiona Benson's [Vertigo & Ghost], which was both amazing and totally harrowing. The first half is like the dark side of all those great Greek myth retellings—a cycle of poems about Zeus in which he is (as he was), a rapist and predator who eventually meets his own violent fate. The second half is presumably autobiographical, about sadness and the natural world and childbirth and the terrible places the mind goes when you pay attention to what's going on in the world when you have small children in your care. There's a good amount of violence against women and children and even some animals here—none of it gratuitous, it's all appropriate to what she's got to say—and it's hard reading. But also often beautiful, and incredibly rewarding if you can handle it. She's a fantastic poet. "Fly" is one of those things where a poem fits my skin absolutely and precisely at this moment, and I am copying it out at least twice (my copy is a library book).… (mais)
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lisapeet | 3 outras críticas | Jul 25, 2021 |
This is wonderful, dark, intense stuff. It begins with a run of poems about Zeus, as a murderer, rapist, toxic male. Then a looser collection much of which is about having children and all the worry it brings. It's unflinching and some of it very upsetting and emotional.
I'm going to be dipping back in and out of this frequently.
½
 
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AlisonSakai | 3 outras críticas | Jun 8, 2020 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
7
Also by
2
Membros
111
Popularidade
#175,484
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
5
ISBN
13

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