The goose bath : poems
著者
書誌事項
The goose bath : poems
(A Vintage book)
Random House New Zealand, 2008, c2006
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
内容説明・目次
内容説明
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was brought indoors as a receptacle into which Janet piled her poems and jottings as she reworked and developed them. Over time the goose bath overflowed with paper, including hundreds of unpublished poems. By the time Janet died she had named her hoped-for but elusive new selection 'The Goose Bath'. From this treasure trove, Pamela Gordon, Denis Harold and Bill Manhire selected over a hundred poems that illustrated the shape of her life: her childhood and the subsequent difficult years in mental hospitals; her travels around the world; her life as a writer and return to New Zealand; and growing older and facing illness and death. The poems reveal her love for words, for cats, for the changing seasons, the arts and for this country. There are love poems, meditations on mortality, flashes of humour and startling imagery. And always she celebrates the power of the human imagination.
Since first publication, this book has become a Premier New Zealand Bestseller and many of its poems have been anthologised and even set to music. The book went on to win the Poetry Section of the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. It is also being released internationally, in countries as wide-ranging as the UK, Australia and Spain. It is a beautiful and thought-provoking work, a lasting legacy from one of this country's most acclaimed writers. 'Janet Frame's The Goose Bath is essential reading. This is a volume that alters the landscape of New Zealand poetry.' - New Zealand Listener
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