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My Life Asleep (Oxford Poets) Book
The title of Jo Shapcott's new collection, My Life Asleep, suggests a certain intimacy-- a wishful waywardness--to be discovered through a reading of her poems. If poems have often been compared to dreams--one of the more striking pieces included here, "Delectable Creatures", borrows its title from Auden's tribute to that great thinker of dreams, Sigmund Freud-- then there may be a privileged connection between what we do, or who we are, when we are asleep and the imagining which takes place through writing. In "Thetis", for example, "I" is the sea goddess, "raped until I bleed from my eyes", while the reader, "you", becomes a voyeur, spectator of the self-to-self intimacy--the exhibition of a self thinking through the legacy of poetry: Rilke, Enzensberger, Tsvetaeva--which seems … read more...
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