Free Logic |
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| Author:
| Briggs, Rachael |
| Series title: | UQP Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7022-4993-8 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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Let's gulp syrup under the sugar maples. Grab your gumballs, candy corn, wax lips, chocolate kisses. Grip your pillowcase by the edges; rip it asunder. Transmuting techniques, forms and figures as she moves with enviable ease from themes of love through landscape to logic, Briggs evinces a relentless inventiveness and intelligence. These poems affirm the complexities of a fringe science of the soul. 'Reading these poems, we are likely to be greeted, at any...
More DescriptionLet's gulp syrup under the sugar maples. Grab your gumballs, candy corn, wax lips, chocolate kisses. Grip your pillowcase by the edges; rip it asunder.
Transmuting techniques, forms and figures as she moves with enviable ease from themes of love through landscape to logic, Briggs evinces a relentless inventiveness and intelligence. These poems affirm the complexities of a fringe science of the soul.
'Reading these poems, we are likely to be greeted, at any moment, by a well-concealed tripwire or a loving embrace. The collection is alive with strange characters and luminous creatures in landscapes where the surreal meets common ground head-on.' Anthony Lawrence
'Free Logic is alive in every direction - exhilarating, daring and beautifully crafted.' Deb Westbury