A Complex Accident of Life is a poetry collection by Jessica McHugh.
Inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jessica McHugh's debut poetry collection, A Complex Accident of Life, combines visual art and text to create 52 pieces of Gothic blackout poetry exploring the intense passion, enigmatic nature, and transformative pleasure of life, viewed through the kaleidoscopic lens of a female horror artist.
Wow, I really loved this collection. It was written using the blackout poetry technique where you use words contained within an existing text and blackout the rest creating a poem. I'll post an example from this collection here:
Affection
I must own my purpose.
Courage and hope will demand all my fortitude,
And there is a great remaining road between
Angel and intention.
All
of the poems in this collection were created using pages out of Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein. I loved it. The poems were incredible, and I'm
really inspired by the whole process.
If you're a fan of poetry, do check it out.
