02972nam 2200625 450 991046334620332120200520144314.01-77558-631-61-77558-169-11-86940-629-X(CKB)2670000000492011(EBL)1411849(SSID)ssj0001060651(PQKBManifestationID)11602701(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060651(PQKBWorkID)11087834(PQKB)10868257(SSID)ssj0001357811(PQKBManifestationID)11778536(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001357811(PQKBWorkID)11362780(PQKB)11008217(MiAaPQ)EBC1557362(Au-PeEL)EBL1557362(CaPaEBR)ebr10843072(CaONFJC)MIL859983(OCoLC)863823753(EXLCZ)99267000000049201120100331d2009 uy| pengur|n|---|||||txtccrThe blind singer /Chris PriceAuckland, N.Z. :Auckland University Press,2009.1 online resource (151 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-86940-433-5 Includes bibliographical references.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; EpilogueNotesAcknowledgements; Also by Chris Price; CopyrightHow 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, New Zealand poetryElectronic books.New Zealand poetry.NZ821.3Price Chris1962-968058MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463346203321The blind singer2203723UNINA