The Goldfish E-Book

Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul

• Herausgeber: The Emma Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: Art Squares
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

The Goldfish is a sumptuous, surreal exploration of femininity. The poet inhabits the voice of a goldfish through a series of linguistically experimental poems which plunge us into the glass bowl and invite us to gaze out. The poems are in turn sensual, spiky, and queasy, as the poet satirizes the patriarchy and issues a rallying cry for women broken down by society. Halfway through the book, the scope opens out to the world beyond the goldfish bowl, via the story of a free spirit passing through customs, a paean "to our white husbands", and a letter which heals old wounds.

Leseprobe

The Goldfish

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul is an Indonesian poet currently based in Japan. Her debut pamphlet, Ikhda by Ikhda, was published by the Emma Press in 2014. Her poems have been published in The Emma Press Anthology of Mildly Erotic Verse and The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Emma Dai’an Wright is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher and illustrator based in Birmingham. She studied Classics at Brasenose College, Oxford, and worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up the Emma Press.

AUTHOR’SNOTE— The Goldfish is a collection of provocations and statements on feminism. I tried to challenge myself to play with dualities and intensely compare the lives of a woman and a goldfish in a glass bowl. The spontaneous, surreal and playful words are an energetic encouragement to all individuals living and thinking in the new world. The world of cross-cultural thought and divergence.

THE EMMA PRESS

First published in the UK in 2019 by the Emma Press Ltd

Poems copyright © Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul 2019

Illustrations copyright © Emma Dai’an Wright 2019

All rights reserved.

The right of Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul and Emma Dai’an Wright to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work respectively has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

ISBN 978-1-912915-20-0EPUB ISBN 978-1-912915-21-7

A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Oxuniprint Ltd, Oxford.

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CONTENTS

The Goldfish

To The Gentle River

Rebellion Red

How To Take Care Of A Goldfish

The Origin

I Asked The World And The World Asked Back

Lipstick Stains

To Our White Husbands

Project V

The Gold Letter

Horn

Synthesis

Ci Luk Ba

At Noon