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Truth and beauty : verse biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand / edited by Anna Jackson, Helen Rickerby, and Angelina Sbroma.
- Title
- Truth and beauty : verse biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand / edited by Anna Jackson, Helen Rickerby, and Angelina Sbroma.
- Publication
- Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2016.
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- Description
- 250 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- With essays on such influential verse biographers as Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Porter, Michael Ondaatje and Anne Carson along with newer practitioners such as Chris Orsman, Jordie Albiston, Robert Sullivan and Tusiata Avia, this collection looks at the inevitable tensions that arise between historical fact and the work of imagination - and the competing and complementary claims of truth and beauty. Contributors: Airini Beautrais, Amy Brown, Russell Coldicutt, Joan Fleming, Shari Kocher, Tom McLean, Bridget Orr, Ian Rae, Erin Scudder and Jessica L. Wilkinson.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- New Zealand essays – 21st century.
- Essays.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Anna Jackson -- Margaret Atwood's The journals of Susan Moodie : palimpsetuous transformations / Russell Coldicutt -- Michale Ondaatje's The collected works of Billy the Kid : voice and biofiction / Ian Rae -- Anne Carson's If not, winter : fragment of Sappho and 'The glass essay' : motions of desire and the biographical impulse / Joan Fleming -- Dorothy Porter's Akhenaten : where verse novel meets verse biography via the polyphonic poetic mask / Shari Kocher -- Jordie Albiston's biographical poetry : 'disguising the "I"' / Jessica L. Wilkinson -- Jennifer Maiden's biographical poetry : 'The frozen dream in which two talk' / Amy Brown -- Chris Orsman's South : photographing the unphotographable / Tom McLean -- Robert Sullivan's Captain Cook : absolving 'Endeavour James'? / Bridget Orr -- Tusiata Avia's Bloodclot : poetic 'automythography' / Airini Beautrai -- Amy Brown's The odour of sanctity : longing's life story / Erin Scudder.
- ISBN
- 9781776560974
- 1776560973
- OCLC
- 964332359
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library