Street to street [[electronic resource] /] / Brian Castro

• Autore: Castro Brian
• Pubblicazione: Artamon, N.S.W., : Giramondo Pub., 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Poets, Australian
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: STREET TO STREET; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• Sommario/riassunto: Street to Street is one of Brian Castro's best books yet, a comic-tragic enactment of the anxieties of the writing life, in which the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan plays a major role. A legendary figure, with a commanding knowledge of classical and European poetry, Brennan wrote some of the most powerful poems in Australian literature. He died an impoverished alcoholic at the age of sixty-one. Castro's double portrait of the poet and his biographer, the writer-academic Brendan Costa, plays on the disappointment, the guilt, the lack of recognition, which troubles those
• Titolo autorizzato: Street to street
• ISBN: 1-922146-25-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785948703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II