
Medium
by Johanna Skibsrud
Title:
Medium
Author:
Johanna Skibsrud
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
120 pages
Publisher:
Book*hug
ISBN-13:
9781771668736
EAN:
9781771668736
Publication Date:
05/03/2024
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
358
Dimensions (mm):
139 x 216 x 12
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
From award-winning writer Johanna Skibsrud, Mediumshares the lives and perspectives of women whoin their roles as biological, physical, or spiritual mediumshave helped to shape the course of history.Helen of Troy, Anne Boleyn, Shakuntala Devi, Hypatia of Alexandria, Marie Curie: Medium interprets the voices of women vilified over time, silenced by famous husbands, forced into sex work, or wrongly accused. Reckoning with the dominant historical narratives of each womans era, Skibsrud underscores the power of poetry to bring about new formulations for understanding the relationship between past and present, self and other.These deeply resonant and performative poems use language as a bridge across experience, sensibility, and time. Each exploration begins with a brief vignette inspired by the vidas that once began manuscripts of the troubadours. Both vidas and poems provide lyrical reinterpretations of real and imagined elements in the lives of scholars, scientists, computer engineers, mystics, entrepreneurs, artists, nurses, and other leaders.











