Rebecca Perry est une poétesse acclamée dont l'œuvre se caractérise par son aperçu pénétrant de l'expérience humaine. Ses recueils, explorant souvent les complexités des émotions et des relations, font preuve d'une précision poétique et d'une solide maîtrise de la langue. Perry se concentre sur la capture des nuances de la vie quotidienne, les transformant en déclarations artistiques résonnantes. Son écriture est célébrée pour sa sincérité et sa capacité à forger un lien profond avec le lecteur.
These are poems of tidal ebb and advance, of the drift of sand blown along the beach and into caves, where secret things click and scuttle. Things are not always what they seem. This is an unsettling anxious landscape and it is mapped onto the body in uncertain ways.
A collection of three distinct parts, the poems in Rebecca Perry's second
collection Stone Fruit nonetheless speak across their many common
preoccupations: memory, grief, the fallibility of the physical form, our
connection to and place in the world, natural and otherwise.
I thought I would never see him again. But here he is, standing there, not a care in the world. No thought to the pain he caused me a year ago. Ruby thought she could move on from her break-up with best friend Danny until he shows up at her university campus with a quick smile, sexy abs and eyes that you could easily drown in. Ruby resolves to stay away, not entangling her heart again. But her hormones have other ideas, leading to a steamy night with Danny before she can think better of it. When the two lovers reconnect, how long will it last before the issues that broke them up the first time, start rearing their ugly head?
When Rebecca Perry was growing up, she competed nationally and internationally
as a trampolinist. 'On Trampolining' deftly blends memoir and lyrical
nonfiction to explore a time she 'chose air over earth'. Perry's explorations
on pain, flight and grief in relation to competitive sport, memory and the
body are sensuous, funny, traumatic and tender.