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Lovebug Daisy Lafarge

Lovebug By Daisy Lafarge

Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge


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Summary

In Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life.

Lovebug Summary

Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge

In Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life. Turning to microbiology, mysticism, and psychoanalysis - as well as the raw materials of love and life - Lafarge navigates the uncomfortable intimacy between the human body and the many bacteria, vi-ruses, and parasites to which it is host. Lovebug is a book about the poetics of infection, and about how we can learn to live with multispecies ambivalence. How might we forge non-phobic relationships to our 'little beasts'? How might we re-wild our imaginations? In weaving the personal with the pathological, Lovebug complicates the idea of coherent selfhood, revealing life as a site of radical vulnerability and an ongoing negotiation with limit.

About Daisy Lafarge

Daisy Lafarge lives in Glasgow. She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta 2021; Riverhead 2022), which won a Betty Trask Award and was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta 2020), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and awarded Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Lovebug, a short book on the poetics of infection, is forthcoming with Peninsula Press in 2023.

Additional information

NGR9781913512378
9781913512378
1913512371
Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge
New
Paperback
Peninsula Press Ltd
20231005
192
N/A
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