Bone Monkey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848613478)

This disturbing new collection from Janet Sutherland explores the deeply mischievous, but darkly malevolent figure of Bone Monkey. A trickster who has always existed, he's one of the old gods who sprang to life fully formed. Sitting on the shoulders of men and women through the ages, he is by turns perpetrator and poet, murderer and lover, gardener and carer. With sonnets, ballads and lyrical free verse Bone Monkey wanders through a series of shamanic creation myths into reveries on memory, love and loss. If he is brutal and amoral at times, he is also a dreamer rejoicing in those 'longings to eat the whole world', as Robert Bly has it, which are intrinsically human.

Author: Janet Sutherland
ISBN-10: 1848613474
ISBN-13: 9781848613478
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2014
Pages: 76
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d