I Imagine Myself - Auge, Celeste

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Résumé :
I Imagine Myself is for anyone who has ever imagined they were someone (or something) else. A powerful collection that asserts the freedom to have a visible midlife as a woman, to have difficulties in a relationship and work through them, and to weather the storms of aging. In ambitious and dynamic poems, I Imagine Myself gives voice to the experience of trying to discover a new self, tracing an arc through illness, middle age, connections to other people and the natural world.

Celese Aug?'s witty and intelligent poetry treats serious subjects with a light touch, allowing her to investigate and tease out her subjects with impressive verve and energy. Her controlled, narrative-driven poems deal with the everyday in an imaginative, outspoken and engaging manner. Aug? is a woman journeying through life with an unflinching gaze, seeking out what the world expects of a middle-aged woman and her place in 21st century society and often upending the expectations. - Jean O'Brien, author of Fish on a Bicycle: New & Selected Poems.

Charged with imagination and emotional honesty, Celeste Aug? explores the intimacies of her body, at the whim of hormones, with craft and self-awareness. Storms, external and internal, whip through these pages, swirling up 'brain fog', intimations of mortality, at a time when 'we carry our pains around like sacks filled with cats'. There is no superfluous poem here, each one acutely observed, replete with illuminated images, limned by an exacting hand. A real gem. - Geraldine Mills, author of An Urgency of Stars and Bone Road.

What is so beautiful about these poems is the ice brilliant truth that our lives have our lonely ghost selves living beside us, dipping into our reality every so often and knifing us with regret, despair, joy, love and acceptance. - Orla Foyle, author of Belios and Red Riding Hood's Dilemma

Biographie:
CELESTE AUG? is the author of Skip Diving (Salmon Poetry, 2014), The Essential Guide to Flight (Salmon Poetry, 2009) and the collection of short stories Fireproof and Other Stories (Doire Press, 2012). In their review of Skip Diving, World Literature Today wrote that 'Celeste Aug?'s poems are commendable for their care, deep thought, and intellectual ambition.' The same journal said of Fireproof and Other Stories: 'In her debut collection of short fiction, Aug? creates poignant and accurate outlines of women and their places in the world.' Former co-curator and moderator of Scrutable, a series of live conversations with writers from around Ireland, Aug? has given readings at festivals, libraries and pubs. Both her poetry and fiction have been widely published in literary journals and have won awards including the C?irt New Writing Prize for Fiction. Aug? lives in Connemara, in the West of Ireland.