I, Clodia, and other portraits / Anna Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Anna, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 pages)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"I, Clodia" is the story of Clodia Metelli-poet and lover-and her relations with her far-away paramour Catullus, her husband Metellus Celer, her brother Publius Clodius, and her accuser Cicero. By giving Clodia-the "Lesbia" of Catullus's famous love poetry-her own first-person narration, Anna Jackson upends and reinvigorates the beloved classical sequence with biting wit and tender attention. Who was Clodia and what did she think about the affair, the gossip, the scandal, the poems? Jackson honors and subverts her source material in lines that are a marvel of ventriloquism. The book's second section, "The Photographer's Secret," furthers this superb exploration of voice and portrayal. The photographer in this sequence reads, writes, gives presents, and considers the art of portraiture. But who is examining, and who is being examined? Above all else, Anna Jackson takes us within and without a range of characters in her characteristically witty style-sometimes mock breathless, sometimes dryly pointed, and always clever, stylish, and emotionally engaging.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Imprint

Contents

Part I: I, Clodia

[untitled]

A thousand kisses, then a hundred

This business of kissing

Pipiabat [used to chirp . . .]

A god in his way

A man of few words

Whom shall I kiss now?

So hard a winter

[unsent]

My husband's honour

Laughing at my side

Written on water

[To Caelius Rufus]

[To Clodius]

No rough verses

Oh, in hendecasyllables!

Spring - and the sound of birds

The grittiness of spring

Late summer sun

Catch this

Any amount of gold

Galliambics

Medea, he calls me

The winds and the tides

Like a flock of birds the laughter

Some poet from the provinces

From the distance

Five minutes

Uncounted

[unheard]

[fragment]

Part II: The Pretty Photographer

Untitled

The pretty photographer

The photographer reads The Mysteries of Udolpho

The photographer's hallway

The photographer in the library

The photographer's Olympics

Amanda in the mirror

Saoirse at the fridge

Diane, unexploded

The politician's wife

The girl in the emerald dress

Sabina and the chain of friendship

Emily, too early

Timothy, after the conference

Roland on the outskirts

Evelyn, after tennis-playing

Cambio's wife

Jane Eyre

Emma in the emergency room

Ishmael in the bedroom

The father, late at night

The proof-reader after hours

Sylvia in the supermarket

Disghosting

Afraid of falls?

The pretty photographer's Christmas Eve

Historical note

Acknowledgements

Previous titles.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 12, 2014).

ISBN:

9781775587583

1775587584

9781869408206

1869408209

9781775587590

1775587592

9781775587613

1775587614