Affordable Angst (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848618244)

Mercedes Cebri疣 is interested in how the ideas and ideals by which we live our lives intersect with the minutiae of those lives: food, d馗or, travel, taxes, relationships, celebrity-watching, the quiddity of the everyday. I remember a board-game / from my child-hood: trees, houses, cars, / tiny people with fixed smiles, lives mapped-out, / with consumer choices made for you/ and decisions taken for you / on the little question-cards she writes in the poem 'City now or soon', but the day-to-day of the shiny new Spanish democracy turns out to be not quite so picture-perfect, and in her surreal, rapid, darkly funny, lyrical poems she proves adept at putting her finger in society's wounds. Cebri疣 is one of the most fascinating and original voices in current Spanish poetry.

Author: Mercedes Cebrian
ISBN-10: 1848618247
ISBN-13: 9781848618244
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Language: English
Published: 04/29/2022
Pages: 138
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d