Briefcase / John Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (100 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Winner, 2012 NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for the Best First Book of PoetrySometimes amusing, sometimes sobering, this compilation by judge John Adams is a melange of poems-in traditional and experimental forms-and other texts, which include affidavits, police reports, a sudoku puzzle, court transcripts, a menu, various wills, and commentaries. A disordered novella that brings insight into the practice and language of the law through legal documents, it superbly explores the role of language as a vessel for truth and an implement of justice.

Contents:

COVER; BRIEFCASE; Dedication; If the language; Dealing with fog; Appearance; An order is sought for the destruction of the stapler; Pringell: District Court Processes; Launch; Slip; Little freedom; Driving under the influence; Ring, ring; The Genomes of Law; Anything to think; Tenth commanding tablet; Off the page; So may seem the Garden of Eden; Encourage:; Cold one; Erecting your SunBlister Tent; Mist off Bermuda; Under Oath; A short traverse about the panopticon; Without notice; Processional; Sudoku; Over the barrel; Toeing the line; VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT; I give my word; To my widow

Risk, going forwardQueues of As; How to cross-examine; Definition; Provisions; Loss leavers; Trying to be single; Gnomative Law; Our part of town; Briefs of evidence; Courting Truth; Wedding Bliss; Index; Amid; Fault lines; Violent villan-elle; 'Fuck you'; 133 van Gogh; Evolution; Justice; Proofbirds; Straight line; Hobble; Anchored; Into hinter; Staples of Law; Attending at that place; Between the lines; Language of Law; Bus trip; Buttons; Copyright

Notes:

"Lost briefcase containing legal documents and poems. Phone John Adams if found (obtain telephone number from reception)."

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 31, 2013).

ISBN:

1-77558-518-2

1-86940-754-7

OCLC:

863822527