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Incantation of Frida K.
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Incantation of Frida K. Paperback - 2003

by Kate Braverman

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This critically acclaimed novel imagines the life journey of the legendary Mexican painter, and shows that Frida Kahlo's voyage was an inward one, rendered in the evocative prose of a renowned American poet.

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"I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman's The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds of her body and spirit with a stark pride, transcending all limitations, wrapping her senses around the places, events, and conversations in her past. Frida K. interacts from her hospital bed with her mother, sister, Diego, and her nurse. She calls herself a "water woman," navigating into unexplored dimensions of her world, leading us through the alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown, of Paris in 1939 (where she rubbed shoulders with Andr Breton), and of her neighborhood in Mexico City, Coyoacan. Her voyage is an inward one, an incantation before dying. In The Incantation of Frida K., Braverman's language dances and spins. She carves out a bold interpretation of the life of an artist to whom she is vitally connected.

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  • Title Incantation of Frida K.
  • Author Kate Braverman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seven Stories Press
  • Publication date 2003-06-03
  • ISBN 9781583225714 / 1583225714
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 5.51 x 0.72 in (21.01 x 14.00 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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KATE BRAVERMAN is a native of Los Angeles who grew up surrounded by the counterculture of San Francisco. She has published several novels, including The Incantation of Frida K. (2002), Wonders of the West (1993), Palm Latitudes (1988), and Lithium for Medea (1979), books of poetry--Postcards from August (1990), Hurricane Warnings (1987), Lullaby for Sinners (1980), and Milkrun (1977)--and a collection of stories, Squandering the Blue (1990). She won the O. Henry Award in 1992.

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