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Portrait of My Lover as a Horse (Paperback)
by Selima Hill (Author)
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  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd (19 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852246006
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852246006
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.7 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 523,601 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully disturbing, 13 April 2003
In these hundred poems, Selima Hill portrays her lover not only as a horse, a donkey, a zebra, but also as a bungalow, as a yellow camper van, as a wardrobe. The mood covers just as wide and weird a range too, with the person in the portraits skittering in Hill's mind like a cockroach, between a tyrant, an idol, a comforter and a boring irrelevance.

Jackie Kay has described Selima Hill's poetry as wonderfully disturbing, and never has this been more true than here. The startling images, the short sharp shock of everyday language twisted into extraordinary ideas, the daring assertions that spring out and slash to pieces all the certainties we thought we had about life and love.

This might make Portrait of my Lover as a Horse sound like a difficult book. It isn't. Or only in the sense of coping with what it might do to your life. If I could give one slim volume to someone who doesn't get poetry, this would be it. Most of the poems are only a few short lines long. All of the words are ones we've known since shildhood. It's the way she puts them together that is disturbingly wonderful.

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