heliophobia - Softcover

Razvi, Saba Syed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635343089 ISBN 13: 9781635343083

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2017

Synopsis

heliophobia, a collection of poems, opens with a Nereid on the verge of death, closes somewhere between the orgiastic rapture of a rave and an ecstatic experience of midnight meditation, and pivots on conflicting cultural perspectives – one embracing in revelry the tangible darkness of the night and the other racing in fear from beneath its shadow toward the light. The book provides a space in which culture, myth, and archetype can reconfigure their manifestations, allowing Goya, Houdini, Kali, Anais Nin, Pessoa, Emily Dickinson, Freud and the Mad Hatter and others to cast their selves throughout the moving circles in a shadowy cast of characters across time and continents. As the poems make their way through dream images, ideologies, and reinventions, the foremost question becomes that of the center and where it is, whether it can be reached, or if it even is. A resulting whirl propels the reader through goth-rock refrains and mantric prayers, incantations and phantom confessions, into an underground freefall exploring the textures of shadow and the consequences of light.

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About the Author

Saba Syed Razvi is the author of the poetry collection In the Crocodile Gardens (Agape Editions), as well as the poetry chapbooks Limerence & Lux (Chax Press), Of the Divining and the Dead (Finishing Line Press), and Beside the Muezzin's Call & Beyond the Harem's Veil (Finishing Line Press). She is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Houston in Victoria, TX.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1635343089
• ISBN 13: 9781635343083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94