Teens

by Francesca Lisette

From the Mountain Press website: 'The poems that appear in Francesca Lisette's Teens were written between 2007 and 2010. Teens is deeply influenced by the intellectual climate and sea-charged air of Brighton, where Lisette lived whilst studying at the University of Sussex for five years. Approximating feminist phenomenology through a syntax of borrowed and misheard phrases; saturated with code-language, its philosophical outlook pre-savaged by the Frankfurt School & Situationism; this work traces a geography of body and spirit encountering battles both within & outside itself. At the centre of this collection is "Casebook", straddling the boundaries between performance text, prose poem and lyric. Lisette’s first collection is reprinted in full alongside poems addressing the student protests of late 2010, and previously unpublished poems.'

Genres: Poetry

78 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Francesca Lisette is a poet, astrologer, and interdisciplinary artist from south London. They are the author of two collections of poetry, performance writing and artistic ephemera: Teens (Mountain, 2012) and sub rosa: The Book of Metaphysics (Boiler House Press, 2018).
Lisette has performed in the UK, Europe, the US and Australia. Their poetry has been translated into German, Czech and Portuguese. Francesca currently lives in Denver, Colorado, where they are studying for a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature.