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Skin Can Hold

by Vahni Capildeo
$6.06
Skin Can Hold - Thryft
Skin Can Hold - Thryft

Bold, collaborative poetry exploring theatrical experimentation.

Skin Can Hold is a unique collection of collaborative poetry that ventures into the realm of theater and dance, incorporating elements of burlesque and mime. The result is a bold, adventurous departure from traditional pen-and-paper poetry. The poems are astir with a range of diverse voices and bodies, weaving together a variety of experiences that challenge and push boundaries. This book is perfect for readers who are looking for something daring, inventive, and thought-provoking in the realm of contemporary poetry.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Skin Can Hold

by Vahni Capildeo
$6.06
ISBN: 9781784107314
Authors: Vahni Capildeo
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Date of Publication: 2019-07-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Poetry
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Goodreads rating: 3.57
(rated by 14 readers)

Description

Longlisted for the 2020 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2019. Vahni Capildeo, author of Measures of Expatriation (Forward Prize, 2016), returns with a third Carcanet volume, Skin Can Hold . The collection marks an adventurous departure for a pen-and-paper poet. These texts are the fruit of collaborative experiments in theatre, dance and other performance, drawing on burlesque and mime as well as Capildeo’s fascination with Caribbean masquerade. The poems are astir with voices and bodies usually kept ‘between the lines’ of a weeping poltergeist disrupting the decorum of a lyric; polyglot workmen along an ivory-towercity road. Novels are turned inside out to become dramas of sleaze and surveillance.
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Bold, collaborative poetry exploring theatrical experimentation.

Skin Can Hold is a unique collection of collaborative poetry that ventures into the realm of theater and dance, incorporating elements of burlesque and mime. The result is a bold, adventurous departure from traditional pen-and-paper poetry. The poems are astir with a range of diverse voices and bodies, weaving together a variety of experiences that challenge and push boundaries. This book is perfect for readers who are looking for something daring, inventive, and thought-provoking in the realm of contemporary poetry.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.