Pig Data
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Author: Anne Vegter, Astrid Alben (trans.)
Winner of the prestigious Ida Gerhardt Prize, Pig Data is the2nd collection to be translated into English by Anne Vegter,the first female Dutch Poet Leaureate, renowned for hersurrealistic, whimsical, enigmatic style.A ground-breaking work of contemporary Dutch poetry, Anne Vegter’s PigData exposes the raw nerves of power and desire.The collection orchestrates a mythic and historical collision between threeformidable figures – the South African poet Ingrid Jonker, the mythical witchMedea, and a provocative poetic ‘I’ (evoking the trope of the ‘scorned woman’) to interrogate the male gaze and the transformative potential of female rage.Vegter’s poems tease language to its limit, with a restless energy that isdynamic, vicious and vulgar, infused with humour and absurdist overtones,brought to life through Astrid Alben's virtuosic translation.Pig Data is a tumultuous collection that fearlessly rebuffs the comforts oftraditional form, and which revels in contradictions, moving between aluminous tenderness and vulgar, incoherent urgency.
ISBN 9781913513917. Prototype Publishing. pb. 96 pages. 23 x 16 cm.
not yet published
Winner of the prestigious Ida Gerhardt Prize, Pig Data is the2nd collection to be translated into English by Anne Vegter,the first female Dutch Poet Leaureate, renowned for hersurrealistic, whimsical, enigmatic style.A ground-breaking work of contemporary Dutch poetry, Anne Vegter’s PigData exposes the raw nerves of power and desire.The collection orchestrates a mythic and historical collision between threeformidable figures – the South African poet Ingrid Jonker, the mythical witchMedea, and a provocative poetic ‘I’ (evoking the trope of the ‘scorned woman’) to interrogate the male gaze and the transformative potential of female rage.Vegter’s poems tease language to its limit, with a restless energy that isdynamic, vicious and vulgar, infused with humour and absurdist overtones,brought to life through Astrid Alben's virtuosic translation.Pig Data is a tumultuous collection that fearlessly rebuffs the comforts oftraditional form, and which revels in contradictions, moving between aluminous tenderness and vulgar, incoherent urgency.
ISBN 9781913513917. Prototype Publishing. pb. 96 pages. 23 x 16 cm.
not yet published