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    Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis
    Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis
    Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis
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    Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis

    By Robin Richardson

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    Sexy, irreverent, and inventive

    Lovesick Stormtroopers, dowsing Girl Guides, movie stars, pool hustlers, and the mad queen Ranavalona . . . With Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Robin Richardson charts a path through a surreal otherworld that is at once carnal and aerial, fine-grained and crude. Yearning, unapologetic women who delight in the monsters they’ve created make these poems “a shield made of braids, / bassinet of broadswords,” and “a ghost-like choir where a love affair / becomes a pulp-book, plotted perfectly to end.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9781770904361
    Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis
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    Robin Richardson

    Robin Richardson is Co-director of the Instead consultancy, focusing on issues of equality and diversity. His previous roles include director of the Runnymede Trust and chief inspector of education in the London borough of Brent. He is the author of Islamophobia: a challenge for us all.

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