Daughter-Seed

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Debut poetry collection from Arielle Tipa And everything is so beautiful I want to cry, Tipa writes in this fever dream work of suffering and want and doubt and spells cast Told in striking but sincere language, this feels like peeking behind the curtain into something beautiful and new Lisa Marie Basile, author of Nympholepsy with Alyssa Morhardt Goldstein, Inside the Castle 2018 and Light Magic for Dark Times Fair Winds Press 2018 Arielle Tipa s Daughter Seed is a book of crooked teeth In these poems, women grow in wrong, are uprooted violently, and grow back wrong again Late capitalist life becomes mythical, primordial, as condolences are sent to chefs and bodies glitch botanical In Daughter Seed, the body is dismembered, unsexed, unloved, unkinked, yet the self remains whole though wholly absent, a breadcrumb trail followed by unwanted children, stillborn babes To read Daughter Seed is to inherit something sacred and blood soaked, is to enter into a severed matrilineage, is to know the feminine folklore of warm saliva To read Daughter Seed is to walk into the woods and find a MISSING poster with your face on it Finishing the book, you ll wonder where you ve seen that girl before June Gehringer, author of I Don t Write About Race Civil Coping Mechanisms 2018 and I Love You It Looks Like Rain Be About It Press 2017 Read Daughter-Seed – kino-fada.fr If every girl daughter is a seed, what will that seed become What plume, bloom, or vegetation Maybe its true, that the acorn doesnt fall far from the tree That the seed of her being is a blue bell blueprint, genesis of genes, traumatic histories and memories mapping destinies predestined, societal soldering of gender norms, which she inherits But, maybe its also true that poetry is a magic that wills the seed to roll beyond the fields, weeds and trees of its seedling, never quite escaping If every girl daughter is a seed, what will that seed become What ...Daughter Seed was one of my most anticipated releases of the new year and I was absolutely not disappointed In her debut chapbook, Arielle Tipa comes at you with omens and teeth and fresh fruit and grief an...Absolutely gorgeous debut collection from Arielle Tipa These poems literally ooze with the sensory experience of girlhood and womanhood, and are consistently visceral and sensual with dreamlike, enchanted undertones Devoured this book in one sitting.This is the kind of book that settles deep in your bones and reaches into the most shielded parts of your soul Each poem packs a punch, and you re breathless from it all by the time you close the back cover I found myself flipping right back through it a second ti...Quite simply, I love this little book The macabre dream like poems that are spaced throughout will hit you days after you ve read them and call to you for repeat readings An darkly enchanting debut from someone I look forward to reading again.This is a gorgeous book Tipa s command of language and imagery is astounding I can t wait forfrom her.

Daughter-Seed
  • English
  • 15 April 2019
  • Paperback
  • 28 pages
  • Arielle Tipa
  • Daughter-Seed