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UNINA9910817431703321 |
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Watson Samuel Wagan <1972-> |
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Of Muse, meandering and midnight / / Samuel Wagan Watson |
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Queensland, : University of Queensland Press, 2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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David Unaipon Award Winners Series |
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Poetry |
Race relations |
Australia Poetry |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: of muse -- a prelude -- magnesium girl -- after 2am -- back seat driver -- on the river -- waiting for the good man -- raindrops fall in vain -- chloe in the window box -- the postman's privilege -- musing: the graveyard shift -- new farm is closed -- 2: meandering -- white stucco dreaming -- the crooked men -- falling mother sky -- brown water looting -- jetty nights -- carefree -- the mosquito room -- mudflat -- deadman's mouth harp -- it starts -- a verse for the cheated -- 1986 -- the fatal garden -- radio thick blood -- 3: and midnight... -- midnight's boxer -- surgery music -- a bent neck black and flustered feather mallee -- the gloom swans -- a black bird of my mind -- fly-fishing in woolloongabba -- shout-me-a-wine requiem -- crust -- the writer's suitcase -- midnight's plague -- labelled -- for the wake and skeleton dance -- the dingo lounge -- valley man -- cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale -- Copyright. |
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This is a striking debut volume by the winner of the Unaipon prize for unpublished Aboriginal writers. In a voice youthful, passionate and questioning, these poems reflect on growing up and on letting go; on urban dwellers in love and lust; and on the artist and his Murri community. The politics are unguarded and often amusing; and the language is playful, rhythmic and evocative. Ghosted by ancestors and muses, Watson's cityscape interweaves past and present. |
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