In this debut poetry collection by awardwinning author Kim Fu incantations mythical creatures and extreme violence illuminate small scenes of domestic life and the banal tragedies of modern love and modern deathA sharp edge of humour slices through Fus poetry drawing attention to the distance between contemporary existence and the basic facts of life In the classrooms of tomorrow starved youth will be asked to imagine a culture that kept thin pamphlets of poetry pinned to a metal box full of food who honoured their gods of plenty by describing ingredients in lush languageAlternating between incisive wit and dark beauty Fu brings the rich symbolism of fairy tales to bear on our imageobsessed age From The Unicorn Princess She applies gold spray paint to her horn each morning hoping to imitate the brass tusks on the unicorns skewered to the carousel their brittle painted smiles harnesses embedded in their backs and shellacked to high gloss These poems are utterly ofthemoment capturing the rage irony and isolation of the era we live in