Frissure is an exquisite collection of prose-poems and illustrative work exploring healing, mortality, intimacy, memory and the natural world. It is about the intimate process of looking and seeing as it passes from one person - a cancer patient - looking at herself, from being 'examined' by a surgeon, to being looked at by an artist. In each situation a transformation occurs. The gaze of the patient on her own body and its post-operative scarring is objectified by that of the surgeon assessing the success of his work. But then the creative eye of the artist takes over and what was regarded as a mark of disease and of violation takes on an extraordinary flowering, and becomes a thing of beauty.
- ISBN13 9781846972751
- Publish Date 6 August 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Birlinn Ltd
- Edition Special edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 40
- Language English