The Zoo Father
The Zoo Father by Pascale Petit is a poignant collection of poetry published by Seren on April 28, 2002. This edition comprises 72 pages and is presented in English. The work centers on the complex relationship between a daughter and her dying father, exploring themes of violence and abandonment while drawing on rich imagery from the Amazonian jungle.
Readers will encounter a vivid tapestry of emotions as Petit navigates her past, transforming painful memories into art. The collection also features the ‘The Vineyard’ series, inspired by the author’s mother and a family vineyard in France. Through intense and vibrant language, Petit confronts her experiences with courage, offering a unique perspective that invites reflection on familial bonds and personal history.
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Shortlisted for the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize, this unique collection centres on a daughter’s fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment. Rich in the imagery of the Amazonian jungle (fire ants, shaman masks, hummingbirds, shrunken heads, jaguars) these poems at once ward off and redeem the father through myriad transformations. In contrast, ‘The Vineyard’ series is inspired by the author’s mother and by “…the last piece of wild land, / left to me by accident, by dream” – a family vineyard in France. These intense, vibrant and fiercely felt poems are sure to evoke strong responses in readers. Refusing oblique irony, quotidian props, cant or any pretensions to urban hipness, Pascale Petit takes considerable risks. With fierce courage, she not only survives the brutal facts of her past, but transmutes them, through vivid imagination, into art. The Zoo Father is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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