War’s Body | Rikki Ducornet | Granta Magazine

War’s Body

Rikki Ducornet

‘Born of genocide and slavery, our democracy staggers beneath a failure to acknowledge and address its own defining brutal impulse.’

Rikki Ducornet

Rikki Ducornet is the a poet, essayist, novelist, painter and illustrator. She has published eight novels, most recently, Netsuke (2011, Gallimard), five books of poetry and exhibited her paintings internationally. She has also illustrated books by Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Coover, Forest Gander, Kate Bernheimer, Joanna Howard and Anne Waldman among others.

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