and the stakes behind Rough Music are high. Is the persona presented by a poem a mocking effigy, a mask? Music has power to hurt as well as to soothe. "I brought her home/I bring them all home/the bruised, the crushed,/defaced, deflowered/Fruits of love/from the black river."The "roughness" under the poems' silken surface is the underworld: rape, loss, danger in hidden depths.
from The Guardian: Rough Music by Fiona Sampson
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