Winner of the Tasmania Prize and the Deutz Medal for fiction this is a singular melding of history and imagination. In August 1905 a party of young men boarded a ship for England. Among them were four farmers, two bootmakers and a boatbuilder. They set out from Auckland, never dreaming they would c
A frame of the book: the frame of a book: poems
โ Scribed by Erin Moure
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc.
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In this brilliant collection, Governor General's Award-winning poet Erin Moure tests the boundaries of tenderness, grace, speech, sexual feeling, and a book's ability to frame or hold the person. With her typical wit and textual play, Moure breaks the codes of language to reveal the carnality and torsional power of words. Her lines and frames uncover shadow meanings, highlight syllables as marks, and expose the abrasion, erasure, gaps, and cries that infuse a wordliness in all acts, all human bearing.
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