Incognito / Jessica Le Bas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Bas, Jessica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--21st century.

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Relaxed and intimate, engaging and wise, Incognito is Jessica Le Bas's first book. Her poems have been carefully collected but are wonderfully various. Themes, characters and voices come and go as the poet moves in and out of identities and roles ? sometimes known, sometimes incognito ? discovering new world views, new horizons, whole new windows of observations. Incognito is crammed with people recognised and specific. Children are here, telling stories, drawing pictures. A mother fishing, a father's death, a childhood car trip crammed with memories, the arrival of a new baby. A brown h

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; 1 : you're kidding; another country; the PM comes to school; Dead Horse Pinch; the footpath; HALP; a 'not fair' poem about lice; 2 : there's a love; enlightenment; my mother's birthday; There's a love; old haunts; for that extra distance; what I didn't say to the doctor; trig point; 3 : currency; a bloody good story; love & lunch; man at Oturehua; perhaps the caravan park; a long way from Moscow; currency; two women walking; weight; a mathematician talks to me of imaginary numbers; the brown hen; Anticipation; winter night, Moutere

and the Hawkdun Range behind4 : incognito; a cold spell; lessons; inventories; incognito, my love; incarnate on the coastline of night; in which we don't go to the movies; two angels; in the umbrella house; and I have something to expiate; 5 : journey; house at Malindi; life vest under your seat; through Shenandoah; journey south; Sheep near Pigeon Rock; near Ian's place; towards Devil's Peak; last leaf; 6 : ends; inter-loan; death on the rainbow road; holy war declared; Osama bin Laden sleeps; another Zagreb; Refugee; Acknowledgements; Copyright

Notes:

Poems.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781775585725

1775585727

9781869406172

1869406176

9781775580935

1775580938