New Arcana - Jessica Traynor

With a cover by renowned comic book artist Lisa Sterle, the poems in Jessica TraynorÂ’s New Arcana explore grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive relationships towards a tangling with the realities of family life, domesticity, and desire, this highly inventive collection builds into a heartbroken letter to a dear friend (personified in the poems as ‘lydia deetzÂ’) who died by suicide.... Zobrazit více