Diamonds

In her collection of poems titled "Diamonds," Camille Guthrie explores the challenges and joys of midlife, including divorce, parenting, country life, and being alone. With irreverent humor and resilience, she subverts traditional forms and teases gender roles, history, pop culture, and academia. Guthrie leads readers on a provocative and affecting journey of a break-up and reconciliation with love, offering a unique perspective on midlife experiences.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 88 pages
Publication date: 21 October 2021
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited

Diamonds presents a woman in midlife on the edge, exploring the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life, and the complexities of being alone, engaging with art, and falling in love. Through her hilarious and heartbreaking poems, Camille Guthrie delves into the intricacies of these experiences, offering witty resilience and profound meditations on grief, desire, gender roles, history, pop culture, and academia.

Guthrie challenges traditional forms with her irreverent and subversive approach, creating an elegy about Sylvia Plath's prom dress, a dating profile for Hieronymus Bosch, and a sestina about beauty and power. She also incorporates radical dramatic monologues in the voices of Madame du Barry, a Pict Woman, and others, adding depth and complexity to her poetic exploration.

Unlike Virgil, who refuses to guide this poet through her journey at midlife, Guthrie leads readers by the hand into a provocative and affecting journey of break-up and reconciliation with love. Her poems evoke a range of emotions, from laughter to tears, as they capture the raw essence of human experiences and offer insights into the complexities of life.

Weight: 146g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 8 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781950774456