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OverviewEvent , the first book by Australian poet Judith Bishop, is the work of a border-crosser. Emotionally intense, formally inventive and musical, with influences ranging from Ted Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop to Yves Bonnefoy, these poems have won prestigious awards in Australia and the U.S. and feature in The Best Australian Poetry 2006 (U.Q.P) and The Best Australian Poems 2006 (Black Inc.).. Local and global at once, with a strong naturalist bent, they gather in birds, flora and fauna from across four continents, Australia, North and South America and Europe. Central to the collection is a striking sequence poem which inhabits the voice of the Aztec translator in the Spanish Conquest, La Malinche. Indeed, the human voice -- a form of breath, but irreversible in what it says and does -- performs the principal role in this book's erotic theatre of love and betrayal. Event is, above all, a book of intimate dialogues between a human self and her others: lovers, animals, elements of the natural world, and deities, some distant, some destroyed. Wind, too, has a leading part, taking on the dual role of a natural force and of something close to fate.Rising as if out of nowhere in these poems, wind is a metaphor for the pure nature of events which occur without premonition and without recourse. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Judith BishopPublisher: Salt Publishing Imprint: Salt Publishing Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.118kg ISBN: 9781844712830ISBN 10: 1844712834 Pages: 84 Publication Date: 01 June 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsEvent After the Elements I. Desert Wind The Master of Ikebana It Begins Where You Stand Late in the Day Passage of Winter Precluded; or, Death Imagined The Indifferent II. Rabbit Dona Marina: Part I Rembrandt's Presentation in the Temple The Birds Reported from the South - Vertigo Definition of a Place And the Clouds Cleared the Sky ... The Heart, Arrested Muscle ... Night Fire: A Letter III. Interval IV. The Vow The Shatter Rooms Have Before, Would Again Il Mostro di Firenze An Italian Piazza Savonarolas Alice Missing in Wonderland Agitation Dona Marina: Part II Threnody Affair Two Windows Apology V. Epistles Sorretto da Quattro Angeli On Arriving Still Life with Cockles and Shells Dona Marina: Part III Thanatos How to Speak of Love Issuance The Fireworks Maker of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri Argument in White The Chords of Snow Melting ...ReviewsAuthor InformationJudith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. Her poems have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship in Poetry (2002-2004), an Academy of American Poets University Prize (2004), and the Australian Book Review Poetry Prize (2006), and they appear in The Best Australian Poetry 2006 (ed. Judith Beveridge) and The Best Australian Poems 2006 (ed. Dorothy Porter). She works as a Linguist/Project Manager with a speech technology company in Sydney. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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