Thinking of skins

Rumens, Carol.

Original title: Une balle près du coeur

earliest edition we have, 1993 Fayard, 2008 181 pages

"Carol Rumens confronts the personal with the political in poems which are remarkable for their imaginative daring and their engagement with other lives. Often set against the background of Eastern Europe, Russia or her present home in Northern Ireland, they are filled with a powerful sense of loss and exile. She draws on a wide variety of characters and voices to dramatise the realities of suffering and persecution,...

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Une balle près du coeur edition · 2008 · Fayard · 181 pages · 9782213637273
Thinking of skins paperback · 1993 · Bloodaxe Books · 160 pages

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