Playtime by Andrew McMillan
PBS Autumn Recommendation 2018 Translation Your promise has been extractedÂ

Your promise has been extracted is not a polemic

working and writing and evoking everything she sees and feels as both a storyteller and poet

provide insights into the writing and its familiar themes — love

Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art)

Playtime by Andrew McMillan<br><b>PBS Autumn Recommendation 2018</b> Translation Your promise has been extractedÂIn these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and early adolescence to explore the different ways we grow into our sexual selves and our adult identities. Examining our teenage rites of passage: those dilemmas and traumas that shape us eating disorders, masturbation, loss of virginity the poet examines how we use bodies, both our own and other peoples, to chart our progress towards selfhood. McMillans