Vertigo & Ghost: Poems by Benson, Fiona

Vertigo & Ghost: Poems

Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a...
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Author: Fiona Benson
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Vertigo & Ghost: Poems by Benson, Fiona

Vertigo & Ghost: Poems

$64.33

Vertigo & Ghost: Poems

$64.33
Author: Fiona Benson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a fierce, electrifying, riveting sequence that exposes Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom women are prey and sex is weaponized. As unflinching, devastating poems of vulnerability and anger confront Zeus with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. In its place, acclaimed poet Fiona Benson reveals a disturbing contemporary world in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily, even hourly, basis.

In the volume's second half, Benson shifts to an intimate and lyrical document of depression and family life. These moving poems probe the ambivalent terrain of early motherhood--its anxieties and claustrophobias as well as its gifts of tenderness and love--reclaiming the sanctuary of domestic private life and the right to raise children in peace and safety. Together, these two halves form a complex portrait of modern womanhood.

Dynamic in its range and risk, Vertigo & Ghost introduces an important British voice to an American audience, a voice that speaks out with clarity, grace, and bravery against abuse of power.



Author: Fiona Benson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/15/2021
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780393541861


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/17/2021
Library Journal 07/01/2021 pg. 75

About the Author
Fiona Benson won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006 and a Faber New Poets Award in 2009. She lives in Mid Devon with her husband and their two daughters. Her first collection, Bright Travellers, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. It won the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection.

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