A Suburb of Heaven Contributor(s): Shinebourne, Pnina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1905233523 ISBN-13: 9781905233526 Publisher: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited
Binding Type: Paperback Published: July 2017 Click for more in this series: Flap Pamphlet |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Middle Eastern - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Series: Flap Pamphlet |
Physical Information: 0.11" H x 5.5" W x 8.25" L (0.15 lbs) 46 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A Suburb of Heaven is a collection built from observation and speculation. Based on artist Stanley Spencer's work in the first section and the part-imagined life of Anna O, patient zero of psychoanalysis, in the second, it is a feast for the senses. Spencer's predilection for using Biblical scenes in a rural context carries a narrative impetus that Pnina Shinebourne builds on to create revelatory poetic highs, "half-way between drunkenness and reverie." These moments of altered reality perhaps lead inevitably to the sequence on Anna O, which starts with the curiously apt line, "Transference, said Freud." From that opening, Pnina invents Anna O's history, complete with music notes and linguistic asides. The imagery here is soft against what was sold as hard science; a struggling patient's emotions set against the speculating notes of ambitious men. |
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