Maria Jastrzębska Kritikája a My Secret Life című kötetemről
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„Ordinary life is strange, disturbing. People resell their dead relatives’ beds (“Hourglass”). A camera grimly observes powerless battery hen chicks (“Camera”). In frustration with a poor line, the poet uncovers a Mermaid barbie with a crushed head stuck head-first in the ground in bushes near a car park (“Duration”). She doesn’t know what to do. Should she rescue it or leave it so it might grow a little/each night like a scar, blonde, mutant carrot? Either way it is a hopeless situation and nothing she can do will make a difference. This helplessness is there too in the face of an animal’s suffering (“Dog”) alongside fury and resignation at her lover’s equal helplessness – or is it his lack of understanding?
Love is present most strongly through absence. Poems begin in media res, telling understated, elliptical love stories: It’s been like this a while, you said (“Barrier”). In “Tourist” the focus is the town/you did not visit with me … – disappointment and loneliness deftly captured by the image of the single chocolate laid out on a double hotel bed. A city is defined by the broken promise of the person supposed to join the narrator (“Tyrannosaurus Rex”). She tramps through the city carrying a dinosaur backpack for her son. I waited for you a whole six million years, she tells the missing partner. Time too is measured in millennia, as befits dinosaurs.”
