Notes on Disparity

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Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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This is the author's fourth collection and the poems in it are, she says, the most personal she has ever written. They also make up what she says will be her final collection. As with her previous books, the poems engage with the language she uses as her medium - and it is her third or fourth language, depending on how one calculates it - in the manner of an observer on the outside looking in, rather than one inhabiting that language. It all goes to prove that native speakers do not have it all their own way when writing poetry in English. As the first two lines in the book say: "Lip-locked, / place-ridden."

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-07
Mått140 x 216 x 6 mm
Vikt134 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor78
FörlagShearsman Books
ISBN9781848619722

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Alexandra Sashe is a bilingual poet. Born in Moscow in 1976, she studied painting and linguistics. In her mid-twenties she moved to Paris and began to write: at first, prose; then - as an essentialized way of living a language - poetry. The choice of the language, however, was neither her mother tongue (which quickly reverted to rudiments) nor yet French (which, penetrating ever deeper into her intimate being, would soon become her inner speech). Rather, it was the Language itself that had made its choice, as spontaneous as it seemed necessary: English.In 2013 her first collection of poems, Antibodies, was published by Shearsman Books. Around the same time she moved to Austria and settled in Vienna. Shearsman Books published her second collection, Convalescence Dance, in 2018. Days of Earthly Exile followed in 2021, and now Notes on Disparity in 2025..