Double Portrait [Hardcover]

This unswerving, ambitious work brings the reader on a wild and thrilling journey. The poems lead into a world where desire, the body, memory and invention are looked at in the bright light of language: nothing forgiven, everything laid bare& This is a wonderful, compelling book with the qualities of the best writing, both memorable and moving.If you took the superabundant abandon of Olena Kalytiak Davis and crossed its wires with the graven psychological acuity of Louise Gl?ck, you might get a poet like Brittany Perham.From the opening note to the readerwhich Julio Cort?zar would have lovedto the final interrogation, Brittany Perham holds up a mirror to the self that, through language, like language, sharpens yet fractures experience.Doubling back or spiraling around, incantatory, off-kilter, more song than story, the gorgeously obsessive poems inMusical, insightful, and all the way human.Claudia Rankine, 2016 Barnard Women Poets Prize citation