How to tour the world on a flying fox
By: Marisa Cappetta
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780947493318
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: New Zealand poetry
Description: These poems are a beautiful ensemble of intricate forms and symphonic notes. A rookery, a hermitage, a neat recipe for apple strudel, an anemographic analysis of wedded bliss, a eulogy to mermaids: all this and more lies in store in this stunning collection. Discovery of its unexpected, creative, multilayered places is continuously enriched by Marisa's deeply excavated truths. ~ Siobhan Harvey As a jeweller, Marisa Cappetta makes pieces that are often ingenious and quirky constructs bringing together disparate elements of material, texture and colour. Her poems, too, are wonderful constructs, products of a soaring imagination and sometimes surreal connection, which, coupled with a keen eye and a poet's sensibility, make for a wonderful ride for reader or listener. ~ James Norcliffe.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: We are a map:; title: Two birds to Waterfall; title: Kite weather; title: Glossary of birthing terms; title: Knitting lessons; title: Apple strudel; title: Concertina; title: Coven; title: Passage to Australia; title: The bass player retires to a hermitage; title: My father sews his way to me; title: In the rookery; title: Her bones an office of records; title: birth death & marriage:; title: The bride of Elvis; title: And in the centre ring; title: A husband is a weathervane; title: In the bonds; title: We are here to join; title: Monstrous; title: Love language; title: The skull in the wall; title: The storm after a separation; title: My parents' divorce; title: Six months after your death; title: She was there in the room; title: The accountant cries; title: Cleaning house; title: Eulogy for a mermaid; title: The silversmith self-diagnoses; title: My love in the bindery; title: Waiting for a lover on Rabbit Island; title: Found farther and farther out; title: Not tonight; title: You are the dirt beneath my fingernails; title: Biological name for moth; title: Dreams of thickets:; title: How it happened that a carpenter found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child; title: How to tour the world on a flying fox; title: The woodsman buries his face in a scrap of her cape; title: Lessons from the goose treasure hunt; title: Madame Bovary buys a cello; title: The woman in the bay tree; title: The water gleaners; title: The silversmith becomes a wandering blacksmith; title: Coracle; title: She's always had the gift of flight; title: Water Widow; title: a three-act opera; title: Glossary & acknowledgements.