Voodoo Inverso
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012
eISBN: 978-0-299-28813-6 | Paper: 978-0-299-28814-3
Library of Congress Classification PS3623.A3523V66 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
eISBN: 978-0-299-28813-6 | Paper: 978-0-299-28814-3
Library of Congress Classification PS3623.A3523V66 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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