Sound Archive is the strikingly original first collection of poems from Nerys Williams. Using formal strategies similar to modernist painting - abstraction, dislocation, surrealist juxtaposition - the poet conjures a complex music, intruiging narratives and poems that query identity, gender and the dream of art as a vehicle for emotion and meaning. There is a playfull lightness of tone. For every serious inquisition like 'An Anatomy of Arguments' or 'Conversations with Cocteau' there are musings on celebrity culture as in 'Canter's Starstruck Diner, L.A.' or on the 'artefatcs' left by Marilyn Monroe, in 'Marylin's Auction House'.
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