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The Little Sublime Comedy / John Gallas.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.3.G34 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gallas, John, 1950- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia--Adaptations.
- Dante Alighieri.
- New Zealand poetry--21st century.
- New Zealand poetry.
- English poetry--New Zealand authors.
- English poetry.
- Authors, New Zealand.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.
- English poetry -- New Zealand authors.
- Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 181 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Carcanet Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Snatched snoozing from a mountainside above Lake Rotoiti by his own bumptiousness, and Samuel Beckett, Mr Gallas flies upon a Guided Tour of The Bad Place, The Better Place, and The Good Place, to view their horrors, hopes, despairs and delights. Written in 147 small Songs, this metaphysical plunge, from torment to triumph, features The Tall Knight, The Winsome Weka, 5 Dimensions, Lineout the Dog, torture, a Vegetable Ewe, several Pukekos, a skiing Pohutukawa Tree, ordure, a Polar Rose, The Golden Kiwi, souls falling off things, Philosophy, 78 encounters with the affectionate dead, and lots of bright, coloured lights. Constructed according to an irrefutable, meticulously arranged and explained system of Much Higher Physics, this 21st Century Dante reassesses what are the deadliest of sins, the moral dimensions of forgivable wickedness, and the most splendid qualities of modern man and woman ...and what will happen to their actors.
- Contents:
- The bad place: songs 1-50
- The better place: sings 51-99
- The good place: songs 100-147.
- ISBN:
- 9781784104740
- 1784104744
- OCLC:
- 1000499717
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