The lifeguard : poems, 2008-2013 / / Ian Wedde

• Autore: Wedde Ian
• Pubblicazione: Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (97 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.2
• Soggetto topico: New Zealand literature; New Zealand poetry
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; CONTENTS; The Lifeguard; Help!; Another bottle of oil; Help!; The Look; Three Elegies; Harry Martens; Mahmoud Darwish; Oum Kalsoum; Shadow Stands Up
• Sommario/riassunto: ?You have to start somewhere / in these morose times' begins the title sequence of this collection, in which the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions between life's pool-side surfaces and frightening undertows. Ian Wedde's poet laureate collection, dedicated to his grandchildren Bella and Sebo, opens with a major new series ?The Lifeguard', and finishes with a second long sequence, ?Shadow Stands Up', in which a world of Platonic memory and tidal recurrence is observ
• Titolo autorizzato: The lifeguard
• ISBN: 1-86940-774-1; 1-77558-650-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453484003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II