Voodoo Inverso (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

ISBN: 0299288145

Author: Wagenaar, Mark

Condition: New

In this debut collection, Voodoo Inverso, Mark Wagenaar composes a startling mystical imagism and sets it to music, using self-portraits to explore differing physical and spiritual landscapes. He uses a variety of personae-a victim of sex trafficking in Amsterdam, a fichera dancer, a portrait haunted by Dante, a carillonneur of starlight, an elephant in pink slippers remembering its beloved-to silhouette the intricacies and frailties of the body and the world. In a series of gospels and histories-such as the poems History of Ecstasy and Moth Hour Gospel-he shines a light on the possibilities of transcendence and transfiguration, weaving together memory and loss with desire and hope.