Animals

by Félicia Atkinson

Animals highlights pregnancy and motherhood from an introspective and blunt voice. Dark humor weaves itself through these unwavering and candid poems.

158 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1980

About the author

Félicia Atkinson currently resides in Brussels, Belgium. lives in the northern east hills of Paris, France.
She's got an english name because of her grand grand father but she was a lonely child raised by her polish mom and her parisian father in an appartment surrounded by books. When she was a kid, she learned a lot of weird things for her age, many of them she had forgotten now, such as chinese, sword, baratanatyam, tibetan, harp, dance or theatre. This education made her creative and playfull. The work of Felicia Atkinson is inspired by two ways of thinking: the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy of the unfinished, and the lo-fi folk in music. Imperfections, raw materials, rock culture are the materials of her body of work which includes performance, writing, music, drawing, photograph....

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