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Toxicon & Arachne
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Ideal for readers of experimental and avant-garde poetry, those interested in themes of grief, art, motherhood, and cultural catastrophe, as well as fans of formally innovative and emotionally powerful verse.
TOXICON & ARACHNE is a a raw, personal and indelible double volume of extraordinary lyric poetry, at once thrilling and sinister, by 'one of poetry's most versatile experimentalists' (Publisher's Weekly)
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'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is uncanny that it should arrive in the middle of a global pandemic... Frightening and brilliant' Dan Chiasson, New Yorker
How does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe?
In the months leading up to her daughter Arachne's birth, US poet Joyelle McSweeney set out to write a quiver of poems like a quiver of poison arrows: formally and sonically virtuosic, laced with the poet's obsessive concerns with contamination, decay and the sublime, featuring a crown of 'toxic sonnets' for the tuberculosis bacterium that killed Keats. But when Arachne was born with an unexpected birth defect, lived briefly and died, the poet was visited by a second welter of poems, odes of love, grief, perplexity and rage.
These two books, Toxicon & Arachne, form a double collection of poems weighing love, grief, art and survival in increasingly toxic days.
Toxicon & Arachne is the culmination of eight years of engagement with lyric under a regime of global and personal catastrophes.
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Dan Chiasson, New Yorker: "The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying... Frightening and brilliant."
Jorie Graham: "This is a must read in poetry."
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review): "Formally brilliant, emotionally heartbreaking, and considerably terrifying, this is a stunning work from one of poetry's most versatile experimentalists."
Nick Ropatrazone, The Millions: "McSweeney is one of our most dynamic poets of theme, mood, and syntax, and this new paired collection unifies those ranges powerfully."
Dennis Cooper: "Thrilling; one of the most interesting people working now in terms of form and smart content."
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781472156051
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 February 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corsair
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 124.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 152g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Joyelle McSweeney is the author of eight genre-crossing books, from her debut volume The Red Bird which inaugurated the Fence Modern Poets Series in 2002 to her influential work of Decadent ecopoetics, The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults in 2015. She has written lyric prose, verse plays, Gothic tales and absurdist farces and is interested in hyperdiction, anachronism, and the uncanny prerogatives of Sound and Art, including the political force of non-compliance in all its manifestations. With Johannes Goransson, she founded the internationalist press Action Books and teaches at the MFA program at Notre Dame. She lives in South Bend, Indiana.
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