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The Wear of My Face / Lizz Murphy.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.M768 W43 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Lizz, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian poetry--Irish authors.
- Australian poetry.
- English poetry--20th century.
- English poetry.
- Authors, Irish.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 96 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- North Geelong, VIC : Spinifex Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The Wear of My Face is an assemblage of passing lives and landscapes, fractured worlds and realities. There is splintered text and image, memory and dream, newscast and conversation. Women wicker first light, old men make things that glow, poets are standing stones, frontlines merge with tourist lines. Lizz Murphy weaves these elements into the strangeness of suburbia, the intensity of waiting rooms, bush stillness, and hopes for a leap of faith as at times she leaves a poem as fragmented as a hectic day or a bombed street. What may sometimes seem like misdemeanours of the mind, to Lizz they are simply the distractions and disturbances of daily life somewhere. There is a rehomed greyhound, a breezy scientist, ancient malleefowl, beige union reps and people in all their conundrums. You might travel on a seagull's wing or wing through the aerosphere.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The architecture of pear
- A woman's work
- Some things are orange
- Stray birds 1-10
- The wear of my face
- You can be cruel to a bee
- Girl in a park
- How's the weather in binalong
- Neighbours
- Strangelands
- What is he making in there
- Preambles
- Another day
- Exodus
- `War zone tours'
- Knots
- Please leave the door open
- Bat
- Greyhounds make great pets
- We tried to tell him
- Red
- Shock jocks
- His
- Zombies
- Cross my hand
- Like
- I suffer not the work of fern
- This is what we do
- Lines
- All I could see
- Right of way
- Bag
- (More ducks)
- Happy days
- Felt
- Dark Space
- Scintillate
- Forecast
- Unlike a black cat
- Catchcry
- Takings
- Threats
- Locks
- Cracks
- Prey
- Penalty
- Rips
- Brown goshawk
- Mourning
- Conundrums
- The refuge of art
- Points
- Signals
- First things first
- Wheelbarrow
- Hedge
- Who's been eating the moon
- Back to basics
- Old spice
- Lost property
- Who will bury the pensioners
- The power of prayer
- What does it take to make white
- Bleached
- Prayer: quick & dirty
- Arrivals
- Bees
- Diapause
- Summer
- `You don't pay for any fancy overheads'
- Protests
- Nobody's child
- Kids half price
- Syria's children
- Blood moon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1925950344
- 9781925950342
- OCLC:
- 1264272651
- Publisher Number:
- 99988791729
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