Mirrorstage
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Author: Peter Scalpello
Following their discharge from hospital, 'Mirrorstage' follows its narrator on a road trip through modern Britain. As they pass graffitied bus shelters, construction sites and flooded motorways, the narrator’s internal and external journeys converge, leading them down undesired paths: the mental illness and substance use that led them to the inpatient ward, the uneasy balance of their gender identity, their troubled relationship with their estranged father, and their sense of shame.Woven around the psychoanalytic concept of its title, 'Mirrorstage' is an experimental fable exploring the boundaries of selfhood and literary forms, told in fragments of prose and verse that are equal parts heartbreaking, sexy, and witty.
ISBN 9781917008198. Cipher Press. pb. 96 pages. 19.8 x 12.9 cm.
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Following their discharge from hospital, 'Mirrorstage' follows its narrator on a road trip through modern Britain. As they pass graffitied bus shelters, construction sites and flooded motorways, the narrator’s internal and external journeys converge, leading them down undesired paths: the mental illness and substance use that led them to the inpatient ward, the uneasy balance of their gender identity, their troubled relationship with their estranged father, and their sense of shame.Woven around the psychoanalytic concept of its title, 'Mirrorstage' is an experimental fable exploring the boundaries of selfhood and literary forms, told in fragments of prose and verse that are equal parts heartbreaking, sexy, and witty.
ISBN 9781917008198. Cipher Press. pb. 96 pages. 19.8 x 12.9 cm.
available