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Title: |
The Joy of a Ming Vase |
| Sub-title: |
Poems by Ruth Dallas |
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| By (author): |
Ruth Dallas |
| ISBN10-13: |
1877372307 : 9781877372308 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
215x152x10mm |
| Pages: |
64 |
| Weight: |
.226 Kg. |
| Published: |
Otago University Press (NZ) - January 2006 |
| List Price: |
8.90 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry : Poetry by individual poets |
| As American critic Tom Disch quipped of many vintage poets: 'friends and pets die, the garden takes on a new significance.' There are poems in this collection about Dutch Masters, the remembered voice of a deceased soprano, a waterfall, ancient Chinese artefacts, victims of the World Wars, kites and flowers; but each piece is sensitively imbued not only with the poet's awareness of impending death but also with the incorrigible fragility of life. While Dallas is at home in a number of different modes, her high regard for literary tradition as a form of spiritual realism makes her eminently readable as a disciplined watcher of the seasons. |
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