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Street to street [electronic resource] / Brian Castro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castro, Brian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poets, Australian--Fiction.
- Poets, Australian.
- Brennan, Christopher John, 1870-1932--Fiction.
- Brennan, Christopher John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Artamon, N.S.W. : Giramondo Pub., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Street to Street is one of Brian Castro's best books yet, a comic-tragic enactment of the anxieties of the writing life, in which the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan plays a major role. A legendary figure, with a commanding knowledge of classical and European poetry, Brennan wrote some of the most powerful poems in Australian literature. He died an impoverished alcoholic at the age of sixty-one. Castro's double portrait of the poet and his biographer, the writer-academic Brendan Costa, plays on the disappointment, the guilt, the lack of recognition, which troubles those
- Contents:
- STREET TO STREET; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-922146-25-0
- OCLC:
- 818818991
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