In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of belonging - from places (including her native Romania) and histories, to ways of knowing, loving, and grieving. If the wounded populate these poems, so too do goats, black swans, centipedes, dismembered dolls, and wandering wombs. The ekphrastic sequence on Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy honors stories of Roma people while addressing issues of (mis)representation and epistemic violence. As in previous collections, cemeteries become sites of power, holding the living accountable.
| ISBN: | 9780822966579 |
| Publication date: | 5th August 2021 |
| Author: | Mihaela Moscaliuc |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 70 pages |
| Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |