Playing Monster :: Seiche

Playing Monster :: Seiche by Arterian, Diana. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780999004906.

Poetry. PLAYING MONSTER :: SEICHE is a book-length poem that incessantly dodges between two narratives: the speakers childhood experiences with an abusive father and, as an adult, increasingly aggressive acts made toward her mother by strange men. It is a piece of noir poetics. It is also memoir and documentary. Through tight, spare poems, Arterians unflinching descriptions of difficult life experiences fight aestheticization, engaging directly with the events as through the poetry of witness.