| The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-2013 Contributor(s): Wedde, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1869407695 ISBN-13: 9781869407698 Publisher: Auckland University Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Australian & Oceanian - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.2 |
| LCCN: 2013464551 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |