Mooncalves
$39.95
A deft exploration of personal and cultural myths realized in verse and visuals.
Mooncalves is Kathleen McCracken’s sixth book of poems. The collection falls into two distinct yet stylistically and thematically interconnected sections. The first constitutes a sequence of monologues, each spoken in the voice of a “mooncalf” – famous and not so famous individuals whose physical deformities meant that they were once designated “freaks.” The poems are an imaginative “writing back” which allows these marginalized figures – from the oracular Egyptian dwarf Khnumhotep through the Siamese twins Chang and Eng and, most recently, screen actor Peter Dinklage and visual artist Alison Lapper – to tell their own stories.
Mooncalves includes various art forms – archival and current – that have been arranged to give a visual perspective to, or complementary interpretation of, the ways in which these unique people lived.
Poetry / Visual • 7 x 7 inches, full colour • PB 142 pages • 978-1-55096-096-9
“McCracken possesses a keen sense of topic and has developed her own unique way of describing it.” —Books in Canada
“Kathleen McCracken exhibits an uncommon fusion of poetic, incantory, private and public languages, achieving a resonance marking the best of what a lyric can do.” —Canadian Literature
“These poems are advocacy and counterattack, a turning of tables, both moral and intellectual, by the aliens among and within us. They are inventive, erudite and savage, with a cadence that lingers past the turn of the page.” —Seàn Virgo
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