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mutterseelenallein & splitterfasernackt | transgenerationale Trauma- und Trauergedichte
Mein Kinderzimmer ist eine Welt die sich spaltet.
Laura Gentile is a figurative artist with three degrees and a pentalingual poetess of German-Italian descent whose work focuses on transgenerational trauma, grief, violence and abuse.
Laura's poetry and drawings have been shortlisted for the John Byrne Award 2023 and have been exhibited at Summerhall in Edinburgh.
Laura works in three theatres, is a member of three trade unions and teaches at a university.
Laura Gentile is a figurative artist with three degrees and a pentalingual poetess of German-Italian descent whose work focuses on transgenerational trauma, grief, violence and abuse.
Laura's poetry and drawings have been shortlisted for the John Byrne Award 2023 and have been exhibited at Summerhall in Edinburgh.
Laura works in three theatres, is a member of three trade unions and teaches at a university.
166 pages, Paperback
First published May 30, 2022
About the author
Laura Gentile
9 books28 followers"Powerful, relevant and a stark and intimate examination of how grief leaves its mark on the body." (John Byrne Award, Judging Panel, November Shortlist 2023)
Laura Gentile is a figurative artist with three degrees and a pentalingual poetess of German-Italian descent whose work focuses on transgenerational trauma, grief, violence and abuse.
Laura's poetry and drawings have been shortlisted for the John Byrne Award 2023 and have been exhibited at Summerhall in Edinburgh.
Laura works in three theatres, is a member of three trade unions and teaches at a university.
"coming here to die | polyphonic grief poetry" (poetry)
"Zerreißprobe Menschwerdung | dringende Gedichte" (German poetry)
"symbiosis | a sister's psychogeographical grief" (poetry)
"mutterseelenallein & splitterfasernackt | transgenerationale Trauma- und Trauergedichte" (German poetry)
"you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry" (poetry)
"Daughterbody II: a self-reclamation through poetry" (poetry)
"Daughterbody I: a self-exorcism through poetry" (poetry)
"Within Paravent Walls" (a novel)
Laura holds a Bachelor in English Studies, a Master of Arts (“The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Adrian Lyne's Lolita”) and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (“Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, Schnitzler’s Dream Story, Süskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides”).
She showcases her poetry and drawings on her website (croquemelpomene.com) and on Instagram (croque_melpomene & melpomenepaintings).
Laura Gentile is a figurative artist with three degrees and a pentalingual poetess of German-Italian descent whose work focuses on transgenerational trauma, grief, violence and abuse.
Laura's poetry and drawings have been shortlisted for the John Byrne Award 2023 and have been exhibited at Summerhall in Edinburgh.
Laura works in three theatres, is a member of three trade unions and teaches at a university.
"coming here to die | polyphonic grief poetry" (poetry)
"Zerreißprobe Menschwerdung | dringende Gedichte" (German poetry)
"symbiosis | a sister's psychogeographical grief" (poetry)
"mutterseelenallein & splitterfasernackt | transgenerationale Trauma- und Trauergedichte" (German poetry)
"you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry" (poetry)
"Daughterbody II: a self-reclamation through poetry" (poetry)
"Daughterbody I: a self-exorcism through poetry" (poetry)
"Within Paravent Walls" (a novel)
Laura holds a Bachelor in English Studies, a Master of Arts (“The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Adrian Lyne's Lolita”) and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (“Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, Schnitzler’s Dream Story, Süskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides”).
She showcases her poetry and drawings on her website (croquemelpomene.com) and on Instagram (croque_melpomene & melpomenepaintings).
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