Radical Normalisation

Celia A Sorhaindo

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781800172395
• eBook ISBN:
  9781800172401
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Celia A Sorhaindo's engrossing debut, Radical Normalisation, writes back from the margins, bringing readers to her Dominican home. It adjusts perspectives on the universal questions about poetry as a resource and value in the present. Sorhaindo's wit and linguistic inventiveness are clear in her reflections on the art and the arts, her dramatization of the Dominica-born novelist Jean Rhys's voice, and her reflections on the natural world— a natural world different from others but continuous with them. She records its changes and reckons with it in a series of poems that respond to the destruction visited on Dominica, most recently by Hurricane Maria. Her writing led John Robert Lee to hail, 'a new voice that speaks with sensitivity, maturity and assurance out of a horrendous experience'.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Poetic Turn Of Events
• Survival Tips
• Dead Poets, Prophets and Bob Marley
• Haruspication
• Tension Created in Genesis Genius
• Crucible
• In The Air
• Hypotonic
• H2.5AZ (Strong Ties, Galvanized)
• Disturbed
• Knock On Wood
• black dot at 3am
• ground
• Deep Mined
• (T)Here…Like…
• doh let me be lonely
• Forge
• erasure drawn…sketched out
• Stigma(ta)
• SanctifyIn101HeadRooms
• I Am Not Amused
• Thalassotherapy
• My Sister & I Are Picking Mangoes
• Mary Wollst.onecraft Shelley and I
• Cut(ting) Act(ion)
• Like Paper Cuts…Like Being Cut Up…Like Paper
• Lying In Own Unmade Bed
• animula: rapture of an Introverted Narcissist
• Hintergedanken
• Vodou
• Joining Dots is Radically Normal
• What You Propose I Do
• B for Bravo; Bravo for Bee— A Musical Language in B♭ or A#
• listen
• Fragments of Epic Memory
• Brain Damage Control
• EHS Prima Materia—Sugoi 69
• Bi-polar : Submers-ion…Sublimat+ion…Precipitat(ion)
• Un-Set Binary Bits—Lingua Franca
• Exorcise
• Conjunctio
• Katabasis
• Cento—Digesting Know(the)Ledge
• Masochists
• What Do I Know
• LOL (101)
• STasis As Revolutionary HEalin
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Copyright