Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo
PBS Choice Summer 2018 Kate Potts the violence our scars betray

the violence our scars betray

” ―Lucy Sheerman

and Jacko Jacobus (a dub reggae version of the Biblical story of Jacob and Esau

he has been professor of Spanish Literature at the University of La Laguna in Spain since 1979

The selection ranges from early poems of feminist rebellion and tender observation of children to elegies for the poet’s father and close friends

Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo <br><b> PBS Choice Summer 2018 </b> Kate Potts the violence our scars betrayVahni Capildeo's new book lives with things carefully, lovingly: with glass, with moss, with stone. Venus as a Bear places the non human world at its centre, tenderly disclosing the ways in which it is alive. We have feelings for familiar or strange creatures, objects, or places, but where do these affinities come from? For Capildeo the answers formed at their own pace, while waiting for lambing at a friend's farm, on a tour with poets around the