Lifeguard
Poems 2008-2013
Published on 1. November 2013
97 pages
978-1-77558-650-0 (ISBN)
Description
Ian Wedde's latest collection of poems are a complex mix of rhapsody, fear, and humor, and the prose explore the contradictions between life's pool-side surfaces and frightening undertows. Opening with a major new series of poems "The Lifeguard," it concludes with another long sequence, "Shadow Stands Up," in which a world of Platonic memory and tidal recurrence is observed from a window-seat in Auckland's conspicuously green-branded Link bus. Bringing together work from the past five years by one of New Zealand's most outstanding contemporary poets, this collection shows a master of the are at his thoughtful and surprising best.
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05/2013
Auckland University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Dedication
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- The Lifeguard
- Help!
- Another bottle of oil
- Help!
- The Look
- Three Elegies
- Harry Martens
- Mahmoud Darwish
- Oum Kalsoum
- Shadow Stands Up
- Acknowledgments
