Quiet

''In Quiet , Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in these pages mix a technically assured, sonically resonant, surface with a profoundly evocative, scrupulously integrated core. This book is a seismic event; its vibrations will be felt for a long time to come.'' Kayo Chingonyi Victoria Adukwei Bulley''s debut collection, Quiet , circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one''s ''inner life'' and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, ''your silence will not protect you''. The poems teem with grace and dignity, are artful in their shapes, sharp in their intelligence, and possessing of a good ear, finely attuned to the sonics that fascinate and motivate the writing ''at the lower end of sound''.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Victoria Adukwei Bulley
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2022
• EAN: 9780571370337
• ISBN: 978-0-571-37033-7
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 205 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Women Authors, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)