Pomegranate Eater

by Amaranth Borsuk

Poetry. California Interest. POMEGRANATE-EATER's "radiant host" lives where fecundity meets decay, where the orderly Victorian garden explodes in wild tendrils. The "feast of ingathering" Borsuk spreads before the reader is a harvest at once decadent and cannibalistic: the fruit "explodes overripe, then rots" in our mouths. These rich and densely-layered confections invite us to devour self after self as the text's shifting speaker builds and rebuilds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888553669
• ISBN13: 9781888553666
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Kore Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great collection if poems!

Interesing variety of poems and evolution of themes throughout. Excellent and unexpected imagery and vocabulary. I would reccomend to anyone stuggling with the idea of themselves and their identity. These poems really made me feel alive and understood, while understanding I was in someone else’s space. Reading this was like reading a very viceral, very personal diary.