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The Zoo Father (Paperback)

by Pascale Petit (Author)

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Paperback: 72 pages
Publisher: Seren (19 Sep 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1854113054
ISBN-13: 978-1854113054
Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 0.8 cm

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'The Zoo Father' will prove one of the most startling and original books of poetry to have been published for some time. -- Robert Minhinnick

Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year, 2002 & 2005

'No other British poet I am aware of can match the powerful mythic imagination of Pascale Petit' – Les Murray

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5.0 out of 5 stars Forget about irony and stick your head in this, 1 Dec 2006

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It's rare that I come across a collection of poetry, however striking, that has changed my life. I think I can say this about this book, which is Pascale Petit's second full-length collection. In her first, Heart of the Deer, were poems that journeyed through the Amazonian rainforest, employing imagery of hummingbirds, tribal rituals, hallucinogenics, while at the same time approaching (and to some extent, touching) some dark material of a more obviously personal nature. In The Zoo Father, Petit grapples full-throttle with this material, exploring in dazzling and disturbing poems her relationship with the father who abused and abandoned her and, to a lesser extent, with what it was like to live in the same house with a mentally ill mother.

It sounds bleak, and in the wrong hands it would feel ONLY bleak, ONLY disturbing. But these poems are a long way from being reportage : they are chants and incantations, spells and curses, teeming with ants and hummingbirds (again) and lungfish and all the flora and fauna and tribal rituals of the Amazon, a place where Petit feels very much at home, imaginatively, mythically, one could say psychodramatically. These poems are like nothing else in British poetry, being much more reminiscent of Surrealism and Magic Realism. Though obviously crafted with a lot of skill, they abandon literary contrivance and the defence strategy of irony. They emerge from a dark place while at the same time illuminating it, giving names to material that is usually nameless.

You won't be able to read this book dispassionately. In some senses, it steps out of Literature altogether. You won't be the same when you've finished it.

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