Mama Amazonica -

Pascale Petit

Bloodaxe Books

2018

112 páginas

3h 44m

ISBN-13: 9781780372945

Set in a psychiatric ward in the Amazon rainforest; an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petit's mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. The mother transforms into a giant Victoria amazonica waterlily, and a bestiary of untamable creatures - a jaguar girl, a wolverine, a hummingbird - as she marries her rapist and gives birth to his children. From heartbreaking trauma, there emerge luxuriant and tender portraits of a woman battling for survival, in poems that echo the plight of others under duress, and of our companion species. Petit does not flinch from the violence but offers hope by celebrating the beauty of the wild. She was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in Cornwall. She is of French/Welsh/Pakistani heritage. Her seventh collection, Mama Amazonica is a Poetry Book Society Choice