Title: The blind singer /
Authors: Price, Chris, 1962-
Publisher: Auckland University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: New Zealand poetry
Abstract: "How does music hold us up? The blind singer dances and shimmers around 'the heart of our hearing', weighing up what might be lost to those who are always busy with their eyes. Price works legend, history, biography, art and the secret lives of musical instruments into her poetic narratives." -- Back cover.
Contents: The blind singer -- Air (on a tin whistle) -- Black sun -- Swan song -- Euphonium ode -- The lament for the loss of the books -- Notes from the Bad Plus -- Stowage -- Fled that is music -- Dry ice -- Traitor's gate -- Owl windows -- Four photographs of a piano -- Berlin -- Poem that wanted to begin with a line by Kafka -- The hell-box -- Django & Juliette: a shoebox sonnet -- Large hills make their own weather -- Harriet and the matches -- Mondegreen -- The night ferries -- GOD: the movie -- The serpent, his autobiography -- Irreversible -- The angel question -- Notes -- Acknowledgements.