02784nam 2200541Ia 450 991078673280332120230801230658.01-922146-47-1(CKB)2670000000353491(EBL)1186237(OCoLC)849923796(OCoLC)841378619(SSID)ssj0000873657(PQKBManifestationID)12445639(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873657(PQKBWorkID)10878032(PQKB)10194958(MiAaPQ)EBC3440923(Au-PeEL)EBL3440923(CaPaEBR)ebr10701867(OCoLC)849923796(EXLCZ)99267000000035349120130110d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiquid nitrogen[electronic resource] /Jennifer MaidenArtarmon, NSW Giramondo Publishing Company20121 online resource (96 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-920882-99-5 Acknowledgements; contents; The Year of the Ox; Sphinx on Stilts; Coal; A Great Education; Poor Petal; George Jeffreys 11: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Langley; George Jeffreys 12: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Oslo; George Jeffreys 13: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Beijing; George Jeffreys: 14: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Sharm el Sheikh; Emerald-cut; Hillary and Eleanor 8: The Audience; Hillary and Eleanor 9: The Pearl Roundabout; In the International Pavilion; Deep River; Diary Poem: Uses of Liquid Nitrogen; Diary Poem: Uses of the Civil War; Diary Poem: Uses of Powerlessness; Sydney ConfidentialCircling the High NotesCarina; My heart has an Embassy; Well Inside FiregroundJennifer Maiden's poems are like verse essays, subjecting the political issues of our time, and the figures who dominate them, to a fierce scrutiny, while allowing the personal aspects of experience to be portrayed in the most delicate and imaginative ways. This is the quality of liquid nitrogen which gives the book its title - 'the frozen suspension which is risky/ but also fecund and has beauty' - it is a substance which permits the most intense and heated interactions, and at the same time, the survival of delicate organisms. In the cool medium of Maiden's poetry Julia Gillard confronts herAustralian poetry21st centuryWorld politicsPoetryAustralian poetryWorld politics821.408Maiden Jennifer1949-1462987MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786732803321Liquid nitrogen3672153UNINA