LEADER 02972nam 2200625 450 001 9910463346203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-77558-631-6 010 $a1-77558-169-1 010 $a1-86940-629-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000492011 035 $a(EBL)1411849 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001060651 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11602701 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060651 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11087834 035 $a(PQKB)10868257 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001357811 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11778536 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001357811 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11362780 035 $a(PQKB)11008217 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1557362 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1557362 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10843072 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL859983 035 $a(OCoLC)863823753 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000492011 100 $a20100331d2009 uy| p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe blind singer /$fChris Price 210 1$aAuckland, N.Z. :$cAuckland University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (151 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-86940-433-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aNotesAcknowledgements; Also by Chris Price; Copyright 330 $aHow 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, 606 $aNew Zealand poetry 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNew Zealand poetry. 676 $aNZ821.3 700 $aPrice$b Chris$f1962-$0968058 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463346203321 996 $aThe blind singer$92203723 997 $aUNINA