Nina Karacosta
Quarantena.
Dublin: Turas Press, 2020. First edition. 9781913598143 63 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", is new.
"In "Quarantena," Nina Karacosta's verse journal of fifty days of lockdown in a "city of masks," the poet's fine perception is directed onto those things we generally take for granted. Under such close scrutiny the everyday acquires a hallucinatory quality, so that "the lamp stalks me in the house." in the disturbing reality of a city under quarantine, identity itself comes under threat, until we all might ask, with Karacosta, "is a clown the face seen or the face hidden?" (David Butler).