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Vertigo & Ghost: Poems

By Fiona Benson
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By Fiona Benson
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2021 by Publishers Weekly


Winner of the 2019 Forward and Roehampton Prizes, Vertigo & Ghost offers a searing reimagining of Greek myths of sexual violence that crackles with rage, energy, and empathy.

Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a fierce, electrifying, riveting sequence that exposes Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom women are prey and sex is weaponized. As unflinching, devastating p...

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