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Tales of Ig by Tamara Barnett-Herrin

Name: Tales of Ig by Tamara Barnett-Herrin
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In Tamara Barnett-Herrin‘s Tales of Ig we meet a speaker, an alter ego, a persona and anima who travels into the deep self and the selves who came before. Barnett-Herrin weaves myth and pop culture to interrogate female existence, to time travel while staying in the body. Or as Ig would say, “a good book will take you anywhere,/ especially so here.” This is an endlessly fascinating collection.

–Denise Duhamel

In Barnett-Herrin’s exhilarating debut, the unheimlich(‘un-homely / uncanny’) insists itself into the speaker’s world through the character of Ig. This work, where “the gruesome is a counterpoise / to the sentimental”, is playful, unsettling and poignant by turns. Be prepared for Ig to enter your mind and overstay her welcome.

–Shazea Quraishi

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Tales of Ig

by Tamara Barnett-Herrin

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Tales of Ig is a collection of poems about—and partially by—an entity named Ig, who asks, alongside a guarded poetic speaker, what it takes to stand on solid ground within an unstable subjectivity. These are dialogues, soliloquies and bargainings where other creatures also emerge: Grandmothers; Snakes; movie directors; foxes; mice, and talking pens. Ig is first met on the staging ground of altered consciousness, only to affirm herself as having been intimately present, all along. Possessing and infiltrating a broken pantoum or a lyric poem, Ig insists on her claim: to be heard, despite the deafening estrangement between speaker and subject. #poetry #lyric #pantoum #possession #shadow

Tamara Barnett-Herrin‘s writing has appeared in FENCE, Poetry Ireland Review, MAYDAY Magazine and Denver Quarterly. She is from London, and lives in Los Angeles. Tales of Ig is her first chapbook.