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Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle
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Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1926845900
ISBN-13 9781926845906
Publisher Biblioasis
Imprint Biblioasis
Country of Manufacture CA
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Dec 20th, 2012
Print length 80 Pages
Weight 134 grams
Dimensions 14.00 x 21.50 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification: PoetryAnthologies (non-poetry)
Ksh 2,350.00
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These poems stitch loss to memory, to colours and smells, to tastes of past and present, canvas and ink.

Painters use the term “fugitive pigments” to describe those colours most prone to fading after a brief exposure to light. In Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle, poet and visual artist Jessica Hiemstra uses the idea of fugitive colour to explore the grieving process; whether her subject is a lost grandparent, language, child, painting or cat, Hiemstra renders the fleetingness of life with fine, delicate strokes.

“The poet listens, tastes and remembers, senses afloat, dipping into the past and then surfacing again, drawn by a perfect but fleeting moment.” — Descant




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