The Dead Queen of Bohemia

Download or read book The Dead Queen of Bohemia written by Jenni Fagan and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Queen of Bohemia is a journey through a life lived on the edge. With a poetic style influenced by Gertrude Stein and William Burroughs, this collection is woven with surrealistic imagery that is both unflinching and dislocating. Fagan's poetry is raw and tough yet beautiful and tender and with themes of loss and recovery, hope and defiance, represents a clarion call from a self-taught poet who started writing at the age of seven and so far has not stopped. The Dead Queen of Bohemia documents the progression of a voice and a life written over the last twenty years. It opens with Jenni's most recent work and includes her previous two collections, both now out of print.