The body in time / Diane Fahey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fahey, Diane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian poetry--20th century.

Australian poetry.

Australian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

North Melbourne, Australia : Spinifex Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jordie Albiston's collection of poetry documents the complex world of music and memory, history and art, from the perspectives of such figures as Frida Kahlo, Emily Dickinson, the witches of Salem, Ahab and Frankenstein. Voicing the unspoken languages of the body, these poems aim to negogiate the corporeal narratives of anorexia, abortion, conception and desire with a tension between content and form. Diane Fahey's collection explores diverse settings in Venice, Scotland and Australia. She is also the inner traveller, revisiting sites of trauma and hard-won knowledge in youth and adu

Contents:

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS 1; NERVOUS ARCS; ABOUT JORDIE ALBISTON; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS 2; THE ROOM; DROMANA SUMMER; WHALE SONG; SOLITARY BEACH; EMILY DICKINSON: A MODERN FASCICLE; UTERUS; MATER CARTA; WHEN THEWOMANWAS A GIRL; ON FIRE; FRIDA KAHLO: AN EXHIBITION; KÜNSTLERROMAN; BLACK IRIS III; SURFACES; CANCER IN JUNE; PURITAN; THE SALEM PAPERS, 1692; AFTER THE HANGINGS; BONE; GRANDMOTHER; WINDOW; WANTING BEETHOVEN; BROWN BAG RAG; THREE SHORT PIECES FOR FLUTE; EULOGY; ANICE AFTERNOON; SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS; RAPE SCENE; NURSERY CRIME; THE TREMBLING; I, PRONOUN

ANOREXIA: AN ETYMOLOGYTREES; SCANNING THE TEXT; UTTERANCE; EIGHT (LOVE) SONNETS; THE DEEPWAIT; GOING TO CARRARA; THIS CHIROPRACTIC HEART; FRANKENSTEIN SPEAKS; NOTES; The Body in Time; CONTENTS 3

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contains:

Body in time.

ISBN:

1-74219-404-4

1-74219-024-3

OCLC:

437109511