# I Want! I Want!

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/vicki-feaver/i-want-i-want

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- Authors: [Vicki Feaver](https://www.bookquiver.com/vicki-feaver)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-11-21

## Description

The title of Vicki Feaver’s remarkable new collection derives from Blake’s illustration of a child standing with one foot on a ladder to the moon, crying ‘I want! I want!’ In the title poem it represents her childhood ambition to be a poet; in another, she rejects pressure towards achievement and longs to return to the sensual world of the earth. This startlingly honest book follows the ladder of a life for seventy-five years, in poems that show how much is connected. Unlocking the voice of a silenced, powerless girl, Feaver writes about an apparently stable childhood which, to her, was painfully insecure: tormented with parental expectations and sibling jealousy, torn between mother and grandmother. The eleven-year-old who wanted to become a poet becomes the woman ‘buried under ice with words burning inside’, who becomes the old woman still ‘searching for words’ – fearful now of memory loss and a failing body. I Want! I Want! is the work of a poet looking for a pattern in her life before it’s too late. Urgent, accessible and deeply moving, this is poetry of witness and survival: a vivid testament to the triumph of a poet’s spirit.

## Editions

### I Want! I Want!

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7356-919-5
- Published: 2019-11-21
- Language: en_GB

### I Want! I Want!

- Publisher: jonathan_cape
- ISBN: 978-17-8733-181-5
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2019-11-21
- Language: en_GB