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The dangerous country of love and marriage / Amy Leigh Wicks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wicks, Amy Leigh, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Poetry.
- Marriage.
- New Zealand poetry--21st century.
- New Zealand poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (89 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- A collection of sharp, sensory poems that build a narrative of love and marriage, migration and isolation.'... Tonight marks a thousand dry nights and I wantto show you something. It's a little cavehollowed out by my thirst, a place for you to live.'In this powerful collection, Amy Leigh Wicks takes the reader on a literal journey from New York City to Wellington and Kaikoura, 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.'The dark ocean from the window is still, the waves are sparkling as in photographsand all I can think is how I wantto cut through the sun setting on the purple horizonwith a pair of big scissors.'
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Creation Story
- Tend
- Psalm I
- Salt and Light
- Log No. 1
- Loretta
- Descent
- Remnant
- Bildungsroman
- Rapha
- Redolent
- Epiphany
- Canticle I
- Unmaking
- The History of New York
- Paysage Moralisé
- Landing
- Mihimihi
- First Night in Aotearoa
- Psalm II
- Sabbath
- Quotidian
- Rerenga
- Sehnsucht
- Tuesday
- Rhetorical
- when I halve them
- Water Song
- Impasse
- International Orientation
- Maundy
- Plimmerton
- Expatriate
- Learning to Swim
- Where Stars Go
- 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
- Apokálypsis
- Home
- Assay
- Märchen
- Rūmuri
- Cedar
- Ritual
- Everything Ruined
- Notes
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781776710416
- 177671041X
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