Mirrorwork
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1857541146
ISBN-13
9781857541144
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 27th, 1995
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
162 grams
Dimensions
21.30 x 13.90 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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Khalvati's second collection of poetry uses the image of Islamic mirror-mosaic. The shorter poems refract one another, the three long sequences act a mirror tryptych - their themes of art, nature, domestic life, memory, east and west draw the other poems together.
In Mirrorwork, her second collection, Mimi Khalvati takes the Islamic art of mirror-mosaic – found in palaces, barber shops, kebab houses – as metaphor. The shorter poems refract one another, the three long sequences act as a mirror triptych, their themes – of art, nature, domestic life and memory, east and west – drawing the other poems together. In a mirror-mosaic you search for your reflection but can't find it whole, only flickering, variegated, fragmented, as on television when a pattern is played across a face to preserve anonymity, while the voice discloses what the picture conceals. In Mirrorwork Khalvati at once establishes a voice and questions its integrity. It is a book about becoming, as the poet's children leave home and she must find a changed self and purpose, a new space.
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