๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ brings together a compelling second collection of poetry by artist and filmmaker Cristine Brache. Through concise, powerful lyricism, Brache unapologetically reconstructs her inner life. With poems about mortality, power dynamics, and constructs of the female body and psyche, ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ introduces a fresh and distinctive voice to contemporary poetry, offering readers a complex portrait of Brache's core and vision. The book also includes her out of print debut poetry collection, ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด, previously published by Codรฉtte. โ โ โฃโกโ โ โ โ โฃโฃโ โ โกโ โ โขงโฃคโฃคโ โ โ โกท โ โ ณโ คโฃคโฃโฃฝโ ฏโขฅโฃคโ ดโ โ โ โ โขโกโ โ โ โขฃ โ โ โ โขธโ โ โ โข โก โ โ โกโ โ โ โ โ โ โขโ โ โ โ โฉโฉโฉ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จโฉโฉ โฉ๐ช๐๐๐๐: Paperback โฉ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฉ๐ต: 979-8-218-40909-8 โฉ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐: June 20, 2024 โฉ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: aP โฉ๐ท๐๐๐๐: $20.00 US โฉ๐บ๐๐๐๐: June 2024 โฉ๐ช๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ & ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐: Cristine Brache โฉ๐ฉ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐: Manon Lutanie โฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉโฉ โ โ โฃโกโ โ โ โ โฃโฃโ โ โกโ โ โขงโฃคโฃคโ โ โ โกท โ โ ณโ คโฃคโฃโฃฝโ ฏโขฅโฃคโ ดโ โ โ โ โขโกโ โ โ โขฃ โ โ โ โขธโ โ โ โข โก โ โ โกโ โ โ โ โ โ โขโ โ โ โ ๐ท๐น๐จ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ถ๐น ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ถ๐ซ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ป ๐บ๐พ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ป ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ
โLike problems that end up solving themselves, Cristine Bracheโs poems feel torn out of old diaries, ripped from the headlines, plucked from obscurity and pushed into the spotlightโat once familiar and refreshing to read.โ
โNatasha Stagg, author of ๐๐ณ๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด
โThe specter surrounding us finds an extraordinary poet holding the backdoor open so we can climb through. 'But who are these gods that replay my life and question it? All along I thought I was safe.' Cristine Brache has given us a brilliant, haunting page-turner with ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.โ
โCAConrad, author of ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ
"Cristine Bracheโs poems are like a phone call with a long lost friend, their flow and rhythm attuned, so that whatโs left in the end is a feeling of once again moving in accordance with things."
โRachel Rabbit White, author of ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ญ
โUnderneath the surface of Bracheโs tautly constructed verse are a series of propositions that examine the contracted distance between wanting and ambivalence, between running away and staying, and between disappointment and pleasure. Central to the artistโs practice is the concept that the present is just a waiting room in which we consider what weโve had and what we will inevitably lose; lodged between regret and longing are these poems, shimmering with the doomed glamor of the now.โ
โAlissa Bennett, author of ๐๐ข๐น๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ตโ๐ด ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ
๐ท๐น๐จ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ถ๐น ๐ช๐น๐ฐ๐บ๐ป๐ฐ๐ต๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐น๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ
โCristine Brache works dually as a visual artist and poet, and this gives her writing a particular charge. Poetry, for Brache, becomes the default, the last resort, and a means of covert assault in matters of living where language has led. Bracheโs poems are wide-ranging, intellectually accomplished and deeply shocking. Sheโs doing something very original here.โ
โChris Kraus, author of ๐๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐บ ๐๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ
โThe violence women endure is met head-on with the fearless poetry of Cristine Brache, giving us all the courage to embrace the strength of poetry. Her life, her love, her unapologetic and direct care for the female body and voice can change whatever needs changing in the coldest ignorance our hostile and judgmental world can dish.โ
โCAConrad, author of ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ
"These poems are like dares from the writer to the readerโI dare you to look at me, to define me, to unravel me. The body is amorphous here and hard to pin downโboth alluring and defiant, stoic and vulnerable. These contradictions open up a world of possibility that Cristine Brache writes within, and no word is wasted."
โChelsea Hodson, author of ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐'๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ด๐ฆ
"Testing the air with confidence and austere beauty and wisdom, Cristine Brache manages to rework the language of a female body. Each poem, creating a new form unsparing and deeply transformative, this book is a magical marvel."
โPrecious Okoyomon, author of ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ช๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐๐ช๐ฆ?
โThe figures evoked in Cristine Bracheโs ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ดโcam girls, housewives, daughtersโoften find themselves topping from the bottom, locating power in the positions, sexual and gendered, designed to disempower them. But this role play is not wholly triumphant: Brache, a cunning satirist in the tradition of Dorothy Parker, never loses sight of the larger culture in which women are not โpaid / seen, heard, or understood,โ only looked at. โ[Y]ou are the one who disgusts her,โ she charges the voyeur her reader becomes, โshe is laughing at you while you hold your phone to record her.โโ
โJameson Fitzpatrick, author of ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐บ
โ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด deals carefully, tenderly, cleverly, and, at times, bitingly with pain, beauty, and struggle, both internal and external, personal and societal. This is a book Iโll revisit again and again.โ
โJordan Castro, author of ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ต
๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ is an artist and filmmaker living and working in New York. She received her MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art (London, UK). Her debut poetry collection, entitled Poems, was published in 2018 by Codรฉtte. Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions like Berlinische Galerie and ICA Miami and critically reviewed in places such as The New York Times, Artforum, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Category | Poetry, art |
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Release Date | 15 May 2024 |
Catalog Number | GST001 |