How to Wash a Heart

ISBN-13: 9781789621686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 64 str.

Bhanu Kapil

Opis

Part horror, part comedy, this exceptional poetry collection considers the initially cordial then ambivalent (violent) relations between a citizen host and an immigrant guest. The host is white, with liberal political views, and has opened their home to a non-native, non-white guest whose visa status is precarious. Looking at the limits or complications of a charitable act, the breakdown of a social relationship that is enacted in a consciously progressive space as the immigrant guest can't, for example, make a mess, or say anything that contravenes the comfort zone of their citizen host, these poems are written for a raw voice.