Lemon Hound
Lemon Hound explore la poésie comme un acte de résistance et de création, entre méditation et mouvement.
2007 Winner of the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award
If you open your mouth, ache. If you don't open your mouth, swelter. If you open your mouth but hold your breath, ether. If you look for colour, coral and tea leaves. If you follow the moon, wet and concrete. If you cling to the earth, pistol and candy apple. If you give up your garden, maze and globe, hydrangeas and moon vines. If you lose your shoes, pumice and strain. If you have no money, tin and clang.
As meditative practices focus on the axis of breath, these poems focus on the moment of action, of thought, on the flux of speech.
This is a poetry not of snapshots or collages but of long-exposed captures of the not-so-still lives of women. One sequence imagines Virginia Woolf's childhood; another unmakes her novel The Waves by attempting to untangle its six overlapping narratives. Yet another, `On the Scent,' makes us flâneurs through the lives of a series of contemporary women, while `The River Is All Thumbs' uses a palette of vibrant repetition to `paint' a landscape.
Queyras's language - astute, insistent, languorous - repeats and echoes until it becomes hypnotic, chimerical, almost halluncinatory in its reflexivity. How lyrical can prose poetry be? How closely can it mimic painting? Sculpture? Film? How do wemake a moment firm? These `postmodern,' `postfeminist' poems pulse between prose and poetry: the line, the line, they seem to ask, must it ever end?
`Laced with Virginia Woolf-inspired content, Queyras cultivates a rhythm that rocks the reader through a frontier map of the twenty-first century woman ... Lemon Hound's unique rhythms provide immediate gratification while its layered substance affords greater fulfillment with each reading.' - Verse
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If you open your mouth, ache. If you don't open your mouth, swelter. If you open your mouth but hold your breath, ether. If you look for colour, coral and tea leaves. If you follow the moon, wet and concrete. If you cling to the earth, pistol and candy apple. If you give up your garden, maze and globe, hydrangeas and moon vines. If you lose your shoes, pumice and strain. If you have no money, tin and clang.
As meditative practices focus on the axis of breath, these poems focus on the moment of action, of thought, on the flux of speech.
This is a poetry not of snapshots or collages but of long-exposed captures of the not-so-still lives of women. One sequence imagines Virginia Woolf's childhood; another unmakes her novel The Waves by attempting to untangle its six overlapping narratives. Yet another, `On the Scent,' makes us flâneurs through the lives of a series of contemporary women, while `The River Is All Thumbs' uses a palette of vibrant repetition to `paint' a landscape.
Queyras's language - astute, insistent, languorous - repeats and echoes until it becomes hypnotic, chimerical, almost halluncinatory in its reflexivity. How lyrical can prose poetry be? How closely can it mimic painting? Sculpture? Film? How do wemake a moment firm? These `postmodern,' `postfeminist' poems pulse between prose and poetry: the line, the line, they seem to ask, must it ever end?
`Laced with Virginia Woolf-inspired content, Queyras cultivates a rhythm that rocks the reader through a frontier map of the twenty-first century woman ... Lemon Hound's unique rhythms provide immediate gratification while its layered substance affords greater fulfillment with each reading.' - Verse
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Lemon Hound est une œuvre majeure de la poésie contemporaine, récompensée par le Pat Lowther Award et le Lambda Literary Award. Ce recueil offre une expérience littéraire unique, mêlant prose et poésie pour explorer la complexité des vies de femmes, entre introspection et action. L’écriture de Sina Queyras, à la fois languide et insistante, crée une atmosphère presque hypnotique, idéale pour les amateurs de textes expérimentaux et engagés.
Le recueil aborde des thèmes comme l’identité féminine, la quête de soi, la mémoire, et la réinvention des récits personnels. Sina Queyras s’inspire notamment de The Waves de Virginia Woolf pour déconstruire et retisser des histoires de femmes, tout en interrogeant la frontière entre poésie et prose. La nature, le corps, et la parole sont aussi des motifs centraux, traités avec une grande sensibilité.
Lemon Hound s’adresse aux lecteurs et lectrices en quête de poésie contemporaine audacieuse, ainsi qu’à ceux qui s’intéressent aux questions de genre, d’écriture féminine, et d’expérimentation littéraire. Les amateurs de Virginia Woolf, de Sylvia Plath, ou de la poésie queer trouveront dans ce recueil une résonance particulière.
Avec ce smartbook, vous pourrez interroger l’œuvre sur ses inspirations littéraires, ses choix stylistiques, ou les liens entre les différents poèmes. Posez des questions sur la déconstruction des récits féminins, l’influence de Virginia Woolf, ou encore sur la place du corps et de la nature dans l’écriture de Sina Queyras. Vous pourrez aussi demander des analyses de passages précis.
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