The Lifeguard Poems 2008-2013 |
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| Author:
| Wedde, Ian |
| ISBN: | 978-1-77558-439-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $15.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.