Pascale petit biography of abraham
Pascale Petit is educator apart from being an award-winning poet....
Pascale Petit
In 2018 Petit was elected as a Royal Society of Literature Fellow. She is widely translated and travelled, particularly in the Amazon rainforest and Indian tiger forests.
In addition he is a biographer: of Abraham and Moses.
The poet Daljit Nagra has said of her work: ‘Rarely has the personal and environmental lament found such imaginative fusion, such outlandish and shocking expression that is at once spectacularly vigorous, intimate and heartbroken.’
There is something of the cumulative effect of layering paint over a stark white canvas – in Petit’s case the starkness is the rawness of trauma – of mixing ‘the blue sting [and] the red ache’.
In 'The Strait-Jackets’, the poet curates forty hummingbirds around her incapacitated father, so that he ‘can see their changing colours’ – the room brightens and his breathing improves for the fleeting few moments the birds are allowed to roam free.
Her poems often locate feeling in a clearly articulated natural agent or conceit – ‘Self-Portrait with Fire Ants’ sees a father’s lac