Bent at the Spine offers a 'pronoun'-ced frolic where the "you' is a disconnected third party - the reader is left in the position of an eavesdropper, or a listener, or a karma-surplus author. Its relentless interrogation resonates at an invigorating pace: cultural difference, different bodies, diffident accents, deafening rhymes. Sometimes rapturous, often vulvy, the poems audaciously teach "you" how to read them, allowing the last-minute-cram-session to be a delving, a plunging, a repeating discovery.
Priase for Nicole Markoti :
"[Markoti ] has brought the body into language ungarbled, succulent and full of potential. She has moved from mere sentences that describe to sentences that become almost flesh themselves." � Shane Rhodes
"Markoti transforms numerous sites of disconnection into future horizons, into dynamic zones of possibility." � West Coast Line
- ISBN10 1927040086
- ISBN13 9781927040089
- Publish Date 1 May 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Book*hug
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 112
- Language English