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Quarantena Nina Karacosta

€13.00

Paperback: Poetry 60 pages
ISBN 9781913598143

Quarantena is an intriguing meditation on the fifty days of the Paris lockdown during the COVID 19 pandemic, from March – May 2020. The collection is composed of fifty poems, one for every day, and reflect the practical, emotional and psychological journey of the writer through that strange time, as well as the wider social roots and impact of the experience. Quarantena explores the nuances of interpersonal communication, and the ways in which isolation and connection with the deepest recess of identity echo different facets of the self. A profound reflection on the strangest of times.

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quarantena front and back cover“In Quarantena, Nina Karacosta’s verse journal of fifty days of lockdown in a ‘city of masks’, the poet’s fine perception is directed onto those things we generally take for granted. Under such close scrutiny the everyday acquires a hallucinatory quality, so that ‘the lamp stalks me in the house’. In the disturbing reality of a city under quarantine, identity itself comes under threat, until we all might ask, with Karacosta, ‘is a clown the face seen or the face hidden?’ ”
David Butler