The blind singer / Chris Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Chris, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does ?music hold us up'? In The Blind Singer, Wellington writer Chris Price ?cultivates the art / of listening' to explore this question. Price has a clear and precise ear and the poems dance and shimmer around ?the heart of our hearing'. And she draws on wider material: Music and science meet, shake hands, are introduced to history. Scepticism contends with superstition, and blindness and sight interrogate each other, eventually agreeing that ?Sometimes/ you have to turn away so you can see'. Price knits the curious and the arcane into her lines in poems variously elegiac, melodic,

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; The Blind Singer; Air (on a tin whistle); Black sun; Swan Song; Euphonium Ode; The Lament for the Loss of the Books; Notes from The Bad Plus; Stowage; Fled is that music; Dry ice; Traitor's Gate; Owl windows; Four photographs of a piano; Berlin; Poem that wanted to begin with a line by Kafka; The hell-box; Django & Juliette: a shoebox sonnet; Large hills make their own weather; Harriet and the Matches; Mondegreen; The night ferries; GOD: the movie; The Serpent, His Autobiography; irreversible; THE ANGEL QUESTION; Prologue; Epilogue

NotesAcknowledgements; Also by Chris Price; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781775586319

1775586316

9781775581697

1775581691

9781869406295

186940629X

OCLC:

863823753