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Mirrorwork

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In Mirrorwork, her second collection, Mimi Khalvati takes the Islamic art of mirror-mosaic - found in palaces, barber shops, kebab houses - as metaphor. The shorter poems refract one another, the three long sequences act as a mirror tryptych, their themes - of art, nature, domestic life and memory, east and west - drawing the other poems together. In a mirror-mosaic you search for your reflection but can't find it whole, only flickering, variegated, fragmented, as on television when a pattern is played across a face to preserve anonymity, while the voice discloses what the picture conceals. In Mirrorwork Khalvati at once establishes a voice and questions its integrity. It is a book about becoming, as the poet's children leave home and she must find a changed self and purpose, a new space.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1995

ISBN 13: 9781857541144

Mirrorwork

0/5 ( ratings)

In Mirrorwork, her second collection, Mimi Khalvati takes the Islamic art of mirror-mosaic - found in palaces, barber shops, kebab houses - as metaphor. The shorter poems refract one another, the three long sequences act as a mirror tryptych, their themes - of art, nature, domestic life and memory, east and west - drawing the other poems together. In a mirror-mosaic you search for your reflection but can't find it whole, only flickering, variegated, fragmented, as on television when a pattern is played across a face to preserve anonymity, while the voice discloses what the picture conceals. In Mirrorwork Khalvati at once establishes a voice and questions its integrity. It is a book about becoming, as the poet's children leave home and she must find a changed self and purpose, a new space.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1995

ISBN 13: 9781857541144

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