LIDIA VIANU

The Desperado Age

British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium

PASCALE PETIT (b. 1953) is a waterfall of images, all strong and contorted, all desperately clear, and her story is one of rape and lovelessness. Her poems read like stains of violent colour making up an unknown alphabet. She could not care less about being or not being autobiographical, she is too preoccupied to express the whirlwind of emotion that is at the core of her lines. On the whole, Pascale Petit is a poet with a huge baggage and a language that she invents and that suits her perfectly.

by VIC (Cristina Ioana Vianu)