Summary
‘Enough,’ the boy coughed as he and his father walked down the cobbled street. ‘Enough,’ the father said, and rested his hand on his son’s shoulder. But the pleading in his voice and the darkness that had come to nestle underneath his eyes wasn’t enough, and the boy coughed again. The cough rattled in the father’s ears like an empty mosque. The boy coughed again and this cough rose up from the street, over the rows of orange roofs. The cough joined with other coughs, the coughs of a thousand …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780864739131 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0864739133 |
| Author: | Louise Wallace |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Victoria University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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“Louise Wallace can start a poem in the ‘real’ world, then take it off to somewhere else entirely. She’s not afraid of ‘odd’ and she has this great weird syntax which can really disrupt a poem and change all that’s gone before. These are marvelous poems.” –Jenny Bornholdt, award-winning poet, Summer
About The Author
Louise Wallace
Enough is a book about moving to the South Island, about the gestation of a difficult second book, about teaching writing, about imagining other lives from their Internet traces, about the aging of loved ones, and about looking forward. Disarmingly direct and apparently artless, Enough delivers on the promise of Louise Wallace’s acclaimed debut, Since June.
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