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Title: |
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died |
| Sub-title: |
Poems 2013–2017 |
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| By (author): |
C. K. Stead |
| ISBN10-13: |
1869408896 : 9781869408893 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Weight: |
.220 Kg. |
| Published: |
Auckland University Press - September 2018 |
| List Price: |
12.49 Pounds Sterling |
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Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| All his life heâ d measured / the worth of a work / by its cost in effort. / Only at the last came this / â certainty of executionâ / costing / him next-to-nothing, / receiving his all. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Steadâ s new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, remembering old loves and cringing at his â lugubrious rhymingâ . He writes most often of those who have gone (Jacques Derrida and Allen Curnow, Peter Porter and Sarah Broom, Colin McCahon and Maurice Shadbolt, Lauris Edmond and Ted Hughes) but also of those still with us (Kevin Ireland and Fleur Adcock, Alan Roddick and Bill Manhire, Michael Frayn and Paula Rego, his family, himself caught naked in the mirror â and dancing). He takes us with him on the poetical life: from Dogshit Park in Budapest to a Zagreb bookshop to the Christchurch Word Festival. The collection includes a series of poems written while the author was poet laureate, including a sequence on World War I in which â the Ministryâ requests poems from our reluctant and sometimes defiant laureate, who responds in the salty voice of Catullus that he has made his own so often before. As always there is, at the centre, poetry itself, what Steadâ s old mentor Sargeson called â the life of the mindâ : I was the one who believed in poetry â / that it could capture the gull in flight / and the opening flower / and in the blink of an eye a / a knock on the door of death. |
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