Carmine Lullabies

Marilena Zackheos

Carmine Lullabies

Department of Social Sciences

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Abstract

“No half-self remains indifferent,” Marilena Zackheos writes in “Venus de Milo,” and Carmine Lullabies offers a series of vexed, nocturnal berceuse to the partial, chimerical, and mythic selves that inhabit bodies, particularly the bodies of women. By turns worldly and vulnerable, terrified and terrifying, scarified and tattooed, there is no topic—suicide, murder, prostitution, sado-masochism, gender—beyond the pale of Zackheos’s unflinching voice. To paraphrase Emily Dickinson, she deals her pretty words like blades. The intent of these primal lullabies is not to lull us but to awaken us to the truth that, however melancholy and broken we may be, “the remainder is heavy and dense as love.”

– LISA RUSS SPAAR, poet

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Nicosia
Publisher	A Bookworm Publication
Number of pages	65
ISBN (Print)	978-9963-2055-7-8
Publication status	Published - 20 Feb 2016

Keywords

Poetry
Literary form
Creative writing
Women
Gender
Literature
Cypriot writers
Anglophone

UN SDGs

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