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Christina the Astonishing (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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Christina the Astonishing (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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List price R362
Loot Price R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
You Save R34 (9%)
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Saint Christina the Astonishing was born into a poor Belgian family
in 1150. She 'died' aged 22 but at her requiem she rose from her
coffin and flew away like a bird, wanting to escape the smell of
sinful humanity. This was the first of many mad, disobedient
exploits in her long and remarkable life. Jane Draycott and Lesley
Saunders retell - through their own poems as well as brief extracts
from medieval religious writers - Christina's story as a woman's
search for selfhood. The book includes artworks from Peter Hay,
which he created for the original edition in direct response to the
poetry. First published in 1998 and long out of print, this new
edition makes Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders' sensual and
exhilarating poetic collaboration available once more. 'Ascetic and
excessive, exasperating, sometimes absurd, the life of the
little-known St Christina provokes fantasies and questions. Was she
a wonder worker? Or an anorexic, fuelled by hatred of the flesh? Or
a powerful woman whose legendary flights set her free from her time
and her place? Rather than offering pieties or diagnoses, Lesley
Saunders and Jane Draycott, invite us to a feast of soul food.
Their two distinctive voices meet the voices of the Middle Ages in
an extraordinary blend of the sacred and the profane, the rapt and
the irreverent, playful, sensual and deeply felt.' Philip Gross
'Poetry as exciting as this is rare: fusing an earthy sensuality
with the spiritual, it lets us hear Christina's voice ringing
clearly from the rafters.' Robyn Bolam
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