Soho (faber Poetry)
by Richard Scott /
2018 / English / EPUB
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In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an
uncompromising portrait of love and shame against the backdrop of
London’s Soho.
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an
uncompromising portrait of love and shame against the backdrop of
London’s Soho.
Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott
takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our
scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of
sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when
we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy
and tenderness, too, as in a sequence re-imagining the love poetry
of Verlaine.
Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott
takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our
scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of
sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when
we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy
and tenderness, too, as in a sequence re-imagining the love poetry
of Verlaine.
The collection crescendos to the title-poem, where a night stroll
under the city street lamps becomes a search for "true lineage", a
reclamation of stolen ancestors, hope for healing, and, above all,
the finding of our truest selves.
The collection crescendos to the title-poem, where a night stroll
under the city street lamps becomes a search for "true lineage", a
reclamation of stolen ancestors, hope for healing, and, above all,
the finding of our truest selves.