Second collection from the poet of powerful emotions and vivid
imagery, The Zoo Father underlines the author's reputation as a
questing poet capable of outstanding imagistic flourishes and
surprising associations. This extraordinary and powerful volume is
comprised of two sections, the first about with the poet's
relationship with her father, the second with her mother. Section
One is heavily imbued with imagery of the poet's travels in South
America and her researches in the cultures and ecology of the
Venezuelan. Pain, anger, bewilderment are refracted through a rich,
often sensual imagery of fauna, hallucinatory drugs and tribal
beliefs. This gives the poems their originality, and prevents
subject matter of childhood abandonment and abuse becoming too
harrowing. The imagery adapted from shamanistic beliefs is
especially memorable. Section Two is set in southern France, in an
almost equally exotic location of vineyards and 'dinosaur
plateaux'. It concerns the poet's family holidays in "the vineyard"
and her rediscovery and subsequent repossession of that place. Once
again, the poems delineate a primary relationship (with the poet's
mother), with the lushness of the imagery putting into surprising
context the development of that relationship.
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