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Domestirexia

Poems

ISBN-13: 9781593767631

Author(s): JoAnna Novak

Subjects: Poetry

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Soft Skull Press

Publication Date: 16-07-2024

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£15.99

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About the book

Domestirexia goes beyond the entanglement of 'domestic' and 'anorexia' exploring a behind-closed-doors sensuality, borne in the concept of making home. Home can be a space of both resistance and discomfort that one desires or takes pleasure in enjoying. Rote notions of home and the domestic are reimagined in these poems as estranging, excessive, and populated by unknowable characters. Exploring themes of family, sacrifice, disease, death, money, cooking, romance, sex, art, and the visceral qualities of the everyday, the poems twist themselves into binds for the reader to undo or surrender to. Quarantined at her in-law's house during Covid, Novak wrote these poems while watching The Great British Baking Show, reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, skimming Grimm Brothers fairy tales, and babysitting an infant. These are poems about wanting to misbehave. Light voyeurism at home, with gin and cake.

Domestirexia

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