Frissure

de Kathleen Jamie

'Frissure' is an exquisite collection of prose-poems and illustrative work exploring healing, mortality, intimacy, memory and the natural world. It is about the intimate process of looking and seeing as it passes from one person - a cancer patient - looking at herself, from being 'examined' by a surgeon, to being looked at by an artist. In each situation a transformation occurs. The gaze of the patient on her on body and its post-operative scarring is objectified by that of the surgeon assessing the success of his work.