Abstract
On Bernache Nonnette
Highlights
Anna Mendelssohn’s pamphlet Bernache Nonnette (Equipage, 1995), is a sensuous, quietly powerful and darkly ironic document of sexuality, labour, violence and fruition
Published under the name of Grace Lake, it sets up themes that work themselves into many other poems in the collection, often speaking to them across textual lines in a complex and destabilising cross-talk
Central to this work is the figure of the bernache nonnette itself – the barnacle goose
Summary
Anna Mendelssohn’s pamphlet Bernache Nonnette (Equipage, 1995), is a sensuous, quietly powerful and darkly ironic document of sexuality, labour, violence and fruition. Central to this work is the figure of the bernache nonnette itself – the barnacle goose.
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