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This Is Your Real Name by Elizabeth Morton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is This Is Your Real Name about?

In lieu of flowers, bring weeds. Elizabeth Morton's poems look unflinchingly at a raw and unstable world—the crash, the aftermath, the comeback, 'the black heat at the centre of things.' The poems in Morton's second collection are charged with a visceral energy. This is poetry as incantation: an intense, larger-than-life, tactile experience. Underneath the surface of the contemporary world of Poke´mon, The Cosby Show, and hospital cubicles, the reader is drawn into a dreamscape of creeks and bogs, a fiery meadow, and the guts of the sea. A blindman circles a Minotaur; a black horse rides through the pages. As the reader finds handholds within Morton's poems, they may trace a dislocation between the voices here and the worlds into which they're thrown —a strangely askew New Zealand, a mythological America, in liminal spaces where identity and meaning become blurred and uncertain. Jammed full of want, need, despair, love, and politics, these are poems of archaeology and identity—where will we dig for our selves? By what names are we called? By whom are we known? This is darkly funny, unsettling writing that strips all the meat from the bones, 'always writing the same story.'

Who reads This Is Your Real Name?

Author

Elizabeth Morton

Publisher

Otago University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781988592473

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities