Flèche / Mary Jean Chan.
Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2019Description: 78 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780571348046
- Poems. Selections
- 895.11 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 895.11 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000438314 |
"Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in épée, a competitive sport of the poet's teenage and young adult years. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flèche') in public and private spaces. Themes of multilingualism, queerness, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis and cultural history emerge by means of an imagined personal, maternal and national biography, spoken by a polyphony of female voices. The result is a series of poems that are urgent and hard-hitting as Chan keeps her readers on their toes, dazzling and devastating them by turn." - Book cover
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