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Dear sweet Harry / Lynn Jenner.

Title
Dear sweet Harry / Lynn Jenner.
Author
Jenner, Lynn
Publication
Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2010.

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Description
72 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Dear Sweet Harry is Lynn Jenners first collection of poetry - the autobiography of an obsession linking the authors own family history with that of two famous deceivers, Harry Houdini and Mata Hari. In an act of imaginative will Jenner assembles factions and ephemera, poems and scraps that summon in a glow of light other diverse characters, objects and places: France, ham radio, World War I, trains, TB, her grandfather Harry (who saw Houdini perform in London), Katherine Mansfield and Paraparaumu. Dear Sweet Harry is a tender and virtuoso Hey presto! with a global reach and an offbeat charm, unlike anything else in New Zealand literature."--Publisher description.
Subject
  • Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926 > Poetry
  • New Zealand poetry > 21st century
  • Magicians > United States > Poetry
  • Escape artists > United States > Poetry
Genre/Form
  • New Zealand poetry – 21st century.
  • Poetry
Note
  • Verse and prose poems, some expressed as letters, ephemera and miscellanea.
  • Originally presented as the author's thesis (M.A.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2008.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
9781869404604 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2010533463
OCLC
617445738
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library