Barbara Chase Riboud: 2 books
Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released
Collected and New Poems 1974-2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The long breath of Barbara Chase-Riboud's poems recalls poets of the antique world we know only from fragments, like Sappho. And yet here is a disquieting and sumptuous contemporary voice that seems to gather up antiquity and modernity with equal fervor and scorn. These poems are sexually charged,...
Hottentot Venus
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s...