Frissure
Hardback Published on: 06/08/2013
Price: £15.00
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Synopsis
Frissure is an exquisite collection of prose-poems and illustrative work exploring healing, mortality, intimacy, memory and the natural world. It is about the intimate process of looking and seeing as it passes from one person - a cancer patient - looking at herself, from being 'examined' by a surgeon, to being looked at by an artist. In each situation a transformation occurs. The gaze of the patient on her own body and its post-operative scarring is objectified by that of the surgeon assessing the success of his work. But then the creative eye of the artist takes over and what was regarded as a mark of disease and of violation takes on an extraordinary flowering, and becomes a thing of beauty.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
- ISBN: 9781846972751
- Number of pages: 40
- Dimensions: 220 x 260 x 10 mm
- Weight: 425g
- Languages: English
