In continents / Richard Reeve.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reeve, Richard, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (81 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the violence of Tiberius and Edward III to the death of James Cook's Polynesian companion Tupaia, this collection of poems examines a litany of historical contexts, countering the habitual barbarity, selfishness, and stupidity of humans by highlighting their potential. It contrasts grace with atavism, imaginative transcendence with the determinative structures of biology, culture, and belief. Humans, the clever apes, live and die in age-old continents, but behave incontinently. At the collection's core is the role of poetry as revelation of the e

Contents:

Cover; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Proem; I; Man to Maggot; The Puma loves the Wallaby; Self-Eater; Five Songs for Edward III; Tupaia; The Occupation of Tiberius; Ode to Joy; The Baptism of Guthrum; Lyrics for Global Warming; II; FORMALIST MP CONFESSES; Variation on a Theme; Cryptic; Phenotypical; III; The Mermaid Tavern; Inventory; Autumn; Sally's Dream; Rumour; A Nothing; Summer Wedding; El Dorado; Technology and Barbarism; Call in; Doubtful; Seven Songs for Islands; Queen's Drive; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-86940-694-X

1-77558-570-0

OCLC:

864414460