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Girl Mess: A Katabasis in Verse

Kim Rashidi
4.23/5 (44 ratings)
Dante's Inferno, but for the girls.

I open my mouth, swallow myself whole / I am inside the beast, the machine of a girl

A ritualized traverse into the underworld, GIRL MESS is a way back into the body. The feeling, pulsing, tragicomic body. This atmospheric story, guided by a whimsical psychopomp, follows a girl’s peculiarities as she navigates uncanny rooms with strange creatures and even stranger memories. Loosely following the stages of spiritual alchemy from calcination to coagulation, the girl evolves past the nightmares of ageing and comes to understand what it means to live a wondrous life.

GIRL MESS is a cabinet of curiosities, a kaleidoscopic experience, and a decadent feat of imagination. Conceptually playing with the notorious demonization of girls' interests, this novel in verse is a lyrical exploration of the human condition through the trials and trepidations of girlhood. Poetically bold and idiomatically subversive, the pages of this book journey into a celestial realm of introspection to form a connection with the psyche. Pulling on occult threads and alchemical traditions, these poems take inspiration from Rashidi’s dreams and mediations and are aided by Jungian analysis.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
79 pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
Portal Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1738772012
ISBN13:
9781738772018
kindle Asin:
1738772012

Girl Mess: A Katabasis in Verse

Kim Rashidi
4.23/5 (44 ratings)
Dante's Inferno, but for the girls.

I open my mouth, swallow myself whole / I am inside the beast, the machine of a girl

A ritualized traverse into the underworld, GIRL MESS is a way back into the body. The feeling, pulsing, tragicomic body. This atmospheric story, guided by a whimsical psychopomp, follows a girl’s peculiarities as she navigates uncanny rooms with strange creatures and even stranger memories. Loosely following the stages of spiritual alchemy from calcination to coagulation, the girl evolves past the nightmares of ageing and comes to understand what it means to live a wondrous life.

GIRL MESS is a cabinet of curiosities, a kaleidoscopic experience, and a decadent feat of imagination. Conceptually playing with the notorious demonization of girls' interests, this novel in verse is a lyrical exploration of the human condition through the trials and trepidations of girlhood. Poetically bold and idiomatically subversive, the pages of this book journey into a celestial realm of introspection to form a connection with the psyche. Pulling on occult threads and alchemical traditions, these poems take inspiration from Rashidi’s dreams and mediations and are aided by Jungian analysis.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
79 pages
Publication:
2024
Publisher:
Portal Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1738772012
ISBN13:
9781738772018
kindle Asin:
1738772012