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Hand & Skull
Zoë Brigley's third collection Hand & Skull draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the harshness of rural life as well as on her later immersion in the American landscape and her perception of a sense of hollowness in particular communities there. Other strands include the horror of violence, especially violence towards women, contrasted with poems which offer comfort by working as beatitudes or commentaries on life as it exists now, seeking a way of being that is more beautiful, often in relation to her children. There are also epistolary poems, letters to or from real, imagined and remembered women like the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, Thomas Hardy's Tess, and Edna Pontellier from Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
Book Details
- Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
- Publish Date: May 23rd, 2019
- Pages: 64
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.10in - 0.20in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9781780374727
- Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Zoë Brigley (Thompson) grew up in Caerphilly in the Rhymney Valley of Wales, and is now an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University in the US. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and received a Welsh Academy bursary in 2005. Her first book of poems, The Secret (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008. Her second collection, Conquest (Bloodaxe Books, 2012), was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, as is her third collection, Hand & Skull (Bloodaxe Books, 2019). A book of her non-fiction essays, Notes from a Swing State, is due from Parthian Books in 2019. She also researches violence against women, and is co-editor of a volume of scholarly essays, Feminism, Literature, and Rape Narratives (Routledge, 2010).
Praise for this book
The poems in Zoë Brigley's Hand & Skull are strange-making, unsettling, and thrilling in their originality. Here Brigley bravely confronts what it is to be a woman in a world that sees women as prey, the "tautness of fear" enacted in the tautness of each line, each word. Like Georgia O'Keeffe, whose work permeates the book, Brigley explores landscape and the body, often braiding the two: 'I don't know/ it now, but I am about/ to bend. The snap of a branch, or bone/ under a human hand.' Hand & Skull is a brilliant book - and proof that Zoë Brigley is one of the best poets writing today.' - Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones