JoAnna Novak Libros
La escritura de JoAnna Novak profundiza en las complejidades de la psique y las relaciones humanas, caracterizada por una aguda perspicacia y una voz distintiva. Explora temas de ansiedad, identidad y deseo, a menudo a través de una prosa lírica y evocadora. Sus novelas y colecciones de poesía revelan una profunda comprensión de la experiencia humana, dejando en los lectores una impresión duradera. Novak es una autora que no teme explorar los rincones más oscuros del alma humana, encontrando en ellos tanto belleza como verdad.
A poetry collection contorting the idea of home away from being a site of comfort and nourishment by coaxing the reader to think about domesticity in knotty new ways Domestirexia goes beyond the entanglement of "domestic" and "anorexia” exploring a behind-closed-doors sensuality, borne in the concept of making home. Home can be a space of both resistance and discomfort that one desires or takes pleasure in enjoying. Rote notions of home and the domestic are reimagined in these poems as estranging, excessive, and populated by unknowable characters. Exploring themes of family, sacrifice, disease, death, money, cooking, romance, sex, art, and the visceral qualities of the everyday, the poems twist themselves into binds for the reader to undo or surrender to. Quarantined at her in-law’s house during Covid, Novak wrote these poems while watching The Great British Baking Show, reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, skimming Grimm Brothers fairy tales, and babysitting an infant. These are poems about wanting to misbehave. Light voyeurism at home, with gin and cake.