Rapunzel Rapunzel |
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| Author:
| Charman, Janet |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86940-597-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $14.57 |
Book Description:
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As a feminist poet chronicling life in the suburbs in all its banal and joyous detail, Janet Charman has no equal. She has a strong personality but she is never an egotistical poet and her work is remarkable for its compassion, its uncompromising anger and its wit and irony. It has developed a more sophisticated and complex approach over the years and in Rapunzel Rapunzel, the result of a CNZ/University of Auckland fellowship, Charman’s use of language, tight, pointed,...
More DescriptionAs a feminist poet chronicling life in the suburbs in all its banal and joyous detail, Janet Charman has no equal. She has a strong personality but she is never an egotistical poet and her work is remarkable for its compassion, its uncompromising anger and its wit and irony. It has developed a more sophisticated and complex approach over the years and in Rapunzel Rapunzel, the result of a CNZ/University of Auckland fellowship, Charman’s use of language, tight, pointed, aware, is often masterly: this collection is filled with people’s voices, familiar and vivid.