Mercer, Lucy

Emblem

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ISBN 13:
9781913513221
author:
Mercer, Lucy
format:
Paperback / softback
publisher:
Prototype Publishing Ltd.
language:
English
Publication Year:
2022
Dimensions:
1.5 x 23.5 x 23.5 centimetres (0
Genre:
Poetry, General, Science,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£11.80

Description

Lucy Mercer's debut collection Emblem explores the changing symbols of the natural world in literature, revitalising the forgotten hybrid form of ecological poetics.

The poems are carried forward by a non-linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who remain silent. They fixate on alternating relations between text and image that blur into relations between mind and body, child and mother, red and green, past and present, public and private, the living and the dead.

By reusing images from 16th-century emblematist Andrea Alciato's emblem book, Mercer creates a unique frame to contemplate the obscurities of motherhood, faith, and the interior. Emblem is a thought-provoking collection that invites contemplation of our place within the natural world.

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