Vivid Familiar
$20.57
- Paperback
78 pages
- Release Date
3 June 2009
Summary
Vivid Familiar is a book of journeys. At its centre is the astonishing ‘Feathers and Wax’, in which the housebound poet is taken away by an airship that pulls up at her kitchen window. Other poems explore the long journey of the early European settlers of New Zealand, notions of distance and belonging, dislocation and constraint. But equally important are the arrivals, and the ‘vivid familiars’ that sustain the spirit.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780864735980 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0864735987 |
| Author: | Stephanie De Montalk |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Victoria University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 78 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 8mm |
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Critics Review
“Vivid Familiar represents the work of a writer unafraid to use her intellect to approach themes that enthrall her”. –Paula Green, New Zealand Herald“Dark intoxicating poems duck and weave between multilayered thoughts, confounding expectations - but always retaining a cheeky, charming common sense. A reader would enjoy a brief trip to Everest and hang around the Wishing Tree, a bit different from Enid Blyton’s version. At its centre, ‘Feather and Wax’ is a nine-part, 15-page poem that hits the right notes. De Montalk is enlightened and it comes through in her poems”. –Hamesh Wyatt, Otago Daily Times
About The Author
Stephanie De Montalk
Stephanie de Montalk is the award-winning author of three previous collections of poems; The Fountain of Tears, a novel - ‘maybe the most exotic story yet written in this country’ - that imagines the narrative behind Pushkin’s great poem of impossible love, ‘The Fountain at Bakhchisaray’; and Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, which was published to acclaim in 2001 and has been translated into Polish. Stephanie de Montalk was the 2005 Victoria University Writer in Residence, and lives in Wellington.
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