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The glass rooster / Janis Freegard.
LIBRA PR9639.4.F74 A6 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freegard, Janis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Zealand poetry--21st century.
- New Zealand poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 88 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland Auckland University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "The poems in The Glass Rooster explore the spaces inhabited by humans and other creatures - not just natural ecosystems like deserts or the alpine zone, but cities and outer space. Our guide on this journey is a glass rooster - observer of stars and lover of hens - who first popped up in Janis Freegard's poetry years ago and wanders unchecked through the book. These are searching, remarkable poems - about art, about places, about unusual expeditions, and about love. Each of the eight sections (or 'echo-systems') in the book- The Damp Places, Forest, Cityscape, The Alpine Zone, Space, Home & Garden, Underground and In the Desert - is introduced by a triolet, a French poetic form with repeated lines. Other poems are arranged in pairs, each echoing something about the other, whether desert plants, the presence of balloons or the dangers of working in a mine"--Publisher information.
- Contents:
- Echo-system 1 : the damp places. Any time the grime becomes too great
- Flotsam
- The tide rises at the gallery
- Mouth
- Jumping ship
- Among the mangroves
- Hothouse
- Albatross
- Tables
- Echo-system 2 : Forest
- Two new shoots in a rich litter
- Cento
- Not
- Godfather
- Forest song
- After the reception
- Baba yaga
- Lichen quartet
- Trinity
- Echo-system 3 : cityscape
- The sound of dropped silverware
- Sunrise
- Pluck
- Lipstick kisses
- Arohata
- Antirrealismos
- Exhibition
- Various annunciations
- Telescope
- Echo-system 4 : the alpine zone. We rose up into the alpine zone
- Avalanche
- Himalayas
- Altitude
- Dimorphism
- Rarotonga
- Dear Peter, please be advised
- Speaking of the balloonist
- At the window
- Echo-system 5 : space
- Gravitational perturbation
- Psychosis chamber of the oracle
- The astronauts
- Moldavite
- Cometary panspermia
- Yayoi Kusama goes to Iceland
- Reykjavík
- Beside the laughing kitchen
- Neutrinos
- Echo-system 6 : home and garden
- the world is an orange and the sun
- La Fée Verte
- When you're not here
- House
- Room
- Daisies
- Vase
- Ectoplasm
- Entropy
- Echo-system 7 : underground. The tall man with the crooked finger
- Genii cucullati
- Occlusion
- Cueva de los cristales
- Elegy
- Mt Isa
- Sand puppy
- Geysir
- Rachel de Beer
- Echo-system 8 : in the desert. Driving the Desert Road
- Welwitschia
- Cactus
- Vacation
- Desert Flowers
- Riddle
- Desert song
- Mummy
- Sphinx.
- ISBN:
- 9781869408336
- 1869408330
- 1775588017
- 9781775588016
- OCLC:
- 912369899
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