Burning Swans |
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| Author:
| Mateer, John |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86368-091-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1994 |
| Publisher: | Fremantle Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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John Mateer writes- 'Burning Swans is a glimpse of iconoclasm, a moment through which an antipodean symbol burns with the light of an individual's past and an adopted country's ahistorical present. The disturbance in the poems is a recognition of loss. Personal relationships replace the abstraction of belief. Images are nourished by blood's pneumonic emotion. And energised by the charcoal after-image of words.'
John Mateer writes- 'Burning Swans is a glimpse of iconoclasm, a moment through which an antipodean symbol burns with the light of an individual's past and an adopted country's ahistorical present. The disturbance in the poems is a recognition of loss. Personal relationships replace the abstraction of belief. Images are nourished by blood's pneumonic emotion. And energised by the charcoal after-image of words.'