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In Utter the reader is transported by image and sound into a universe where there appear to be no limits to what the imagination is capable, and Vahni Capildeo relishes the freedoms inherent in such a world. Old boundaries come down: between the past and present, between human and animal, animate and inanimate, between the Caribbean and the global elsewhere, between the experienced world and the world of books.
Rooted in an energetic sense of history, the author's vision remains scrupulously contemporary, wholly engaged in our present moment with poems triggered by the earthquake in Haiti, the politics of the globalized Antilles, and the islands industrial and agricultural contradictions. And even when the past is evoked, it remains wonderfully modern: dead soldiers welcoming a modern English apartment-dweller; Beowulf-era abandoned women pinned and pining on islands or beneath trees and recent migrants traveling their transatlantic journeys. And for all this, there live moments of community and tenderness, beauty and humour, all borne by her witty, prodigious intelligence.
This is a book that rewards multiple readings, for at each reading some new untold treasure is sure to be discovered and rediscovered, making it a book as unexpected and as compendious as life.
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If Capildeo keeps writing like this, then we other poor scribes will mass to break her cunning nails and delicious bones, pull out her unique glimmering teeth and pluck out her sincere and breathtaking heart long before we dare touch her sensual Gnostic tongue." --Brian Catling
About the Author
Vahni Capildeo is the author of the poetry collections "Dark & Unaccustomed Words," "No Traveller Returns," "Person Animal Figure," and "Undraining"" Sea," and her work has appeared in the anthologies "Identity Parade," "In the Telling," and "The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse." She is a contributing editor and the UK agent and representative for the "Caribbean Review of Books" and a member of the International Advisory Board for the "Journal of Indo-Caribbean Studies."
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- PublisherPeepal Tree Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1845232135
- ISBN 13 9781845232139
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages78
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