Name: Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit
SKU: 54851032
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Author: Swartwout, Susan
ISBN: 9781941799055

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Author

Susan Swartwout

Publisher

Brick Mantel Books

Language

English

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Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.4 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN13

9781941799055

Synopsis "Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit "

Southern poetry with a gothic twistA Southerner by birth, Susan Swartwout's history and writing are steeped in the gothic elements of quotidian life in the Deep South, a celebration of difference and the uncommon odd beauties who embellish our plain lives. These poems explore the lives of freaks celebrities of Southern fairs' sideshows such as conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker's married lives, the Fat Lady's work schedule, Tom Thumb's Barnum-warped ego, all parallel to the hidden desires, plots, and jealousies of the rest of us. Our exterior normality belies the internal twisted landscapes how complicity and silence echo abuse, how depression infects entire families, how a five-year-old learns to use words as weapons, how human need dispels language's boundaries. From circus oddities to real-life boogeymen, from Louisiana to a Central American village, earth has no dearth of the gothic's strange fruit, illuminating the complexity of what it is to be human.

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