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Smoothie is Claudine Toutoungis debut collection of poems. It takes a tender, exuberant and deliciously dark look at our desire to be heard, whatever the cost; a desire that can be treacherous, comical and sometimes often enough to fend off despair fulfilled. Smoothie plots the wayward wanderings of a beguiling cast of misfits hotel eavesdroppers, city interlopers, lone wolves, phantom bird-watchers, disaffected language robots and triumphant piano-swallowers as they try to express themselves. The poems are candid without being confessional: the poets I encompasses the reader. Languages smooth surface bubbles up as Toutoungis characters reveal their peculiarly twenty-first-century disorientations, riffing off loneliness, authenticity and heartbreak as they go.
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