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The dangerous country of love and marriage / Amy Leigh Wicks.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.3.W465 D36 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wicks, Amy Leigh, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love poetry.
- Marriage--Poetry.
- Marriage.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 77 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "In this powerful collection, Amy Leigh Wicks takes the reader on a literal journey from New York City to Wellington and Kaikōura, and on an emotional journey from youth into 'the dangerous country of love and marriage'. Wicks produces sharp, sensory poems that circle around love and commitment, migration and isolation. With a powerful narrative and emotional arc, this collection introduces us to an important new voice in New Zealand poetry."--Publisher description.
- Contents:
- Creation story
- Tend
- Psalm I
- Salt and light
- Log no. 1
- Loretta
- Descent
- Remnant
- Bildungroman
- Rapha
- Redolent
- Epiphany
- Canticle I
- Unmaking
- The history of New York
- Paysage moralise
- Landing
- Mihimihi
- First noght in Aotearoa
- Psalm II
- Sabbath
- Quotidian
- Rerenga
- Sehnucht
- Tesday
- Rhetorical
- when I halve them
- Water song
- Impasse
- International orientation
- Maundy
- Plimmerton
- expatriate
- Learning to swim
- X
- Kapiti proverb
- Canticle II
- Log no. 2
- August
- Lament
- Breakfast Club
- Ngā Raukore
- Psalm III
- Log no. 3
- Crux
- Literature
- Log no. 4
- Psalm IV
- Canticle III
- Last picnic in Tawa
- Psalm CXXXIX: in translation
- Canticle IV
- Premonition
- Apokalypsis
- Home
- Assay
- Märchen
- Rūmuri
- Cedar
- Ritual
- Everything ruined.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781869408978
- 1869408977
- OCLC:
- 1083947552
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