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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786924603321

Autore

White Gemma

Titolo

Furniture is disappearing / / Gemma White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Queensland, Australia : , : Interactive Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-922120-71-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (66 p.)

Collana

The Literature Series

Disciplina

821.008

Soggetti

Australian poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Prelims; Author Bio; Author Photo; Inside Title; Imprint; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Guru; What I Remember of Edinburgh; The Night Does Not Creep; Love Poem for London; Refrigerator Romance; Frankenstein's Lover; The Joggers and the Immaculate Lands; Nothing; Honesty; This one's for you.; Perils of the Public Library; Ardent Lovemaking; Worker's Block; Crimson Encounter; Wanted: Poet; Last Night I Thought I'd Stumbled Into An Andy Warhol Memory; Medicinal Dreams; Matters of Life and Death; Skin; Cactus Claw; No Word; When You Showed Me the Stars; To My Flatmate

The Roadside Florist (Ringo Starr Gives UpEverything to Pursue a Childhood Dream)Incoherence; I Cannot Swim; Your Eyes; Do you want to get a coffee? He asks.; Third Eye Sight; The Circumstance of Meeting; Who Stole My Bliss?; This Is Love; Friendship; Melanie's Haphazard Technique; Where I grew up; The promise of future greatness; The Kitchen Table; Father's Breath; Mum; Elegy; Photographs; Pleasant Forgetting; The End; Now we are two; Sonnet for my Lover; Sorry Flowers; Furniture is disappearing; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Starkly unaware of herself and struggling to make the passage from child to adult, the narrator in this collection points the finger, repeatedly exposes her heart and wonders why things just never seem to work out. Join her flirtations with strangers, intoxicating relationships and explorations to the edge of the void. This is poetry of the imagination where madness grows, memory holds sway and the



night is an octopus ""awkwardly getting caught. Tentacles fastening onto telegraph poles...""