Branka Petrovic completed an M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University. She holds a B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy from McGill University. She was co-Editor-in-Chief of Headlight Anthology and her poetry has appeared in Branch, Arc Poetry Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, and The New Quarterly, among others. Her work was long-listed for the 2012 and 2015 CBC Poetry Prize and the 2016-2017 Ralph Gustafson Prize for the Best Poem. It was also shortlisted for the 2013 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition. In 2016, she won second prize at the Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest. Born in Belgrade, she lives and writes in Montreal.
Branka Petrovic gets Klimt--she gets inside the gorgeous horror,
the lavish violence of his paintings. That she embodies his work
and his era in a poetry as ornate, as startling, as boldly sexual,
as his art, impresses. That she does so through interrogation, even
judgement--particularly of the male gaze--makes this a remarkable,
and remarkably mature, first book. Provocative, elegant, and
unsettling, Mechanics of a Gaze will leave no reader
untouched.Stephanie Bolster, author of A Page from the Wonders of
Life on Earth.
Rich in imagery and sound, Branka Petrovic's Mechanics of a Gaze is
a lush, layered, and carefully-curated collection of poems about
Gustav Klimt. Animating found material and showing careful
attention to the material culture of the Secessionist period in
Vienna, Petrovic has written a collection steeped in history and
aesthetics, one sharpened by a contemporary, deliciously-ambivalent
gaze. Intertwining threads of art, sex, fashion, scandal, and
looted works, Branka Petrovic's Mechanics of a Gaze "[b]looms /
bravura." Susan Elmslie--author of Museum of Kindness
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