JoAnna Novak Libri
La scrittura di JoAnna Novak approfondisce le complessità della psiche e delle relazioni umane, caratterizzata da un'acuta intuizione e da una voce distintiva. Esplora temi di ansia, identità e desiderio, spesso attraverso una prosa lirica ed evocativa. I suoi romanzi e le sue raccolte di poesie rivelano una profonda comprensione dell'esperienza umana, lasciando nei lettori un'impressione duratura. Novak è un'autrice che non ha paura di esplorare gli angoli più oscuri dell'animo umano, trovandovi sia bellezza che verità.
A poetry collection contorting the idea of home away from being a site of comfort and nourishment by coaxing the reader to think about domesticity in knotty new ways Domestirexia goes beyond the entanglement of "domestic" and "anorexia” exploring a behind-closed-doors sensuality, borne in the concept of making home. Home can be a space of both resistance and discomfort that one desires or takes pleasure in enjoying. Rote notions of home and the domestic are reimagined in these poems as estranging, excessive, and populated by unknowable characters. Exploring themes of family, sacrifice, disease, death, money, cooking, romance, sex, art, and the visceral qualities of the everyday, the poems twist themselves into binds for the reader to undo or surrender to. Quarantined at her in-law’s house during Covid, Novak wrote these poems while watching The Great British Baking Show, reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, skimming Grimm Brothers fairy tales, and babysitting an infant. These are poems about wanting to misbehave. Light voyeurism at home, with gin and cake.