Ebook {Epub PDF} What the Water Gave Me by Pascale Petit

 · What the Water Gave Me contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Some of the poems are close interpretations of Kahlo's work, while others are parallels or version homages where Petit draws on her experience as a . What the Water Gave Me contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Some of the poems are close interpretations of Kahlo's work, while others are parallels or version homages where Petit draws on her experience as a visual artist to create alternative 'paintings' with words. More than just a verse biography, this collection explores how Kahlo t/5. What the Water Gave Me comprises more than fifty poems, written in the voice of Frida Kahlo. On the cover is Kahlo's painting from which the title takes its name. Indeed there are six poems in the collection that respond to that particular painting. This collection has been described as ekphrastic poetry/5(7).

Welcome to the website of poet Pascale Petit. Pascale's eighth collection, Tiger Girl, published by Bloodaxe in , was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.A poem from the book, 'Indian Paradise Flycatcher', won the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. Her seventh collection Mama Amazonica, published by Bloodaxe in , won the inaugural Laurel Prize , and the Royal. Pascale Petit is a poet who was born in Paris and lives in London. Her collections include Fauverie (), What the Water Gave Me: poems after Frida Kahlo () and The Zoo Father (), all from Seren Books. Three of her collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize and were books of the year in the Observer, the Independent and the TLS, where Les Murray wrote: 'No other British. Pascale Petit Responds to Frida Kahlo Beginning with the stunning cover of one of Mexican Painter Krida Kahlo's compelling works - a painting titled 'What the Water Gave Me' - through the pages of poems in response to the life and art of Frida Kahlo, this book is a little master piece. Poet Pascale Petit was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales.

Water, you are a lace wedding-gown. I slip over my head, giving birth to my death. I wear you tightly as I burn –. don’t make me come back. from What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, ), © Pascale Petit , used by permission of the author and the publisher. What the Water Gave Me contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Some of the poems are close interpretations of Kahlo's work, while others are parallels or version homages where Petit draws on her experience as a visual artist to create alternative 'paintings' with words. What the Water Gave Me contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Some of the poems are close interpretations of Kahlo's work, while others are parallels or version homages where Petit draws on her experience as a visual artist to create alternative 'paintings' with words. More than just a verse biography, this collection explores how Kahlo t.