Bøker av Patricia Spears Jones

"A collection of poems by Patricia Spears Jones"--

Painkiller is the final book in a trilogy of collections that started with The Weather That Kills (1995), followed by Femme du Monde (Tia Chucha, 1996). Of these three collections, the poems in Painkiller are the most emotional and intimate, and yet they are also the most universal as they look at the consequences of love found and lost; passions unleashed; terror from human conduct and the awesome power of natural disaster.

Contains poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliche, signifying in an age of raging information and vicious exploitation. The author tackles issues like racism and sexism, but with a poet's eye to details, moments, miracles, pains, and the wildness of the moon and stillness of water.