The Blind Singer
Published on 1. June 2009
88 pages
978-1-77558-169-7 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on a wide range of material, this compendium of poetry integrates science, legend, history, biography, and film into a fiery collection of verse. From melody and empiricism to skepticism and superstition, the work's dialogue between poetry and science is by turns observant, charming, and dramatic. Bursting with musical elements from bells, nursery rhymes, and traditional ballads to Chaplin and Einstein playing string quartets, this poetry collection is a luminous performance that reverberates long after the reading is finished.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
0,17 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-77558-169-7 (9781775581697)
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Chris Price
The Blind Singer
Book
05/2009
Auckland University Press
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Chris Price is a lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington. She convenes the International Institute of Modern Letters' undergraduate poetry workshop and manages the online journal, Turbine. She is the author of Brief Lives and Husk, which received the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Blind Singer
- Air (on a tin whistle)
- Black sun
- Swan Song
- Euphonium Ode
- The Lament for the Loss of the Books
- Notes from The Bad Plus
- Stowage
- Fled is that music
- Dry ice
- Traitor's Gate
- Owl windows
- Four photographs of a piano
- Berlin
- Poem that wanted to begin with a line by Kafka
- The hell-box
- Django & Juliette: a shoebox sonnet
- Large hills make their own weather
- Harriet and the Matches
- Mondegreen
- The night ferries
- GOD: the movie
- The Serpent, His Autobiography
- Irreversible
- The Angel Question
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
