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UNINA9910816772503321 |
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Price Chris <1962-> |
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The blind singer / / Chris Price |
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Auckland, N.Z. : , : Auckland University Press, , 2009 |
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1-77558-631-6 |
1-77558-169-1 |
1-86940-629-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (151 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; The Blind Singer; Air (on a tin whistle); Black sun; Swan Song; Euphonium Ode; The Lament for the Loss of the Books; Notes from The Bad Plus; Stowage; Fled is that music; Dry ice; Traitor's Gate; Owl windows; Four photographs of a piano; Berlin; Poem that wanted to begin with a line by Kafka; The hell-box; Django & Juliette: a shoebox sonnet; Large hills make their own weather; Harriet and the Matches; Mondegreen; The night ferries; GOD: the movie; The Serpent, His Autobiography; irreversible; THE ANGEL QUESTION; Prologue; Epilogue |
NotesAcknowledgements; Also by Chris Price; Copyright |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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How does ?music hold us up'? In The Blind Singer, Wellington writer Chris Price ?cultivates the art / of listening' to explore this question. Price has a clear and precise ear and the poems dance and shimmer around ?the heart of our hearing'. And she draws on wider material: Music and science meet, shake hands, are introduced to history. Scepticism contends with superstition, and blindness and sight interrogate each other, eventually agreeing that ?Sometimes/ you have to turn away so you can see'. Price knits the curious and the arcane into her lines in poems variously elegiac, melodic, |
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