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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787884403321

Autore

Miller Alice

Titolo

The limits / / Alice Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-77558-729-0

1-86940-807-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (65 p.)

Disciplina

821.00809931

Soggetti

New Zealand 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; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; SKIN; Body; Apple; After Battle; STEPS; Waiata; Eyed; Air; What it Takes; Waiata; Terms; In Season; EARTH; Recon; Grow; Antarctica I; Antarctica II; Wet; Album of Cold; Crowd; A Morning in Troy; Far from Shore; Slow; Ocean; Secure; The Ache; Below the Senate; Nature; Earth; BODY; Towards; Album of Breath; Burn; The Carriage; History; Through the Eye; The Hole; Unearth; Countrymen; Mahina Bay; Orbit; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

The poems in this extraordinary full-length collection by Alice Miller ask you to force yourself beyond your own boundaries. They are curious, restless, bold; they marry lyrical music and intricate metaphor as they search for other human voices beyond the rumblings of the apocalypse and the stubbornness of myth.  From bare battlefields to crisp Antarctica to the gates of Troy, from re-written history to love story, they ask for something more from the world than just riding till the spoke breaks. A poet for whom one way's easy but an easy way's / worse, Miller in this collection traces a