Mezzaluna
Subtitle: selected poems
By: Michele Leggott
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Auckland, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781869409074
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: New Zealand poetry
Description: Mezzaluna gathers work from critically acclaimed poet Michele Leggott's nine collections, from Like This? (1988) to Vanishing Points (2017). In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush textured soundscapes. Her poetry covers a wide range of topics rich in details of her New Zealand life, full of history and family, lights and mirrors, the real and the surreal. Michele Leggott writes with tenderness and courage about the paradoxes of losing her sight and remaking the world in words. Mezzaluna brings together in one volume the work of this major New Zealand poet.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: "On white you fall"; title: Watermelon World; title: An Island; title: Withywind; title: "think this"; title: Road Music; title: "it's an evening warm as your unfinished conversation"; title: Garbo in a Gown; title: Dear Heart; title: Colloquy; title: Oldest and Most Loyal American Friend; title: Reading Zukofsky's Flowers; title: Merylyn or Tile Slide or Melete; title: Tigers; title: "Where exactly are we?"; title: Micromelismata; title: Blue Irises; title: honeybee; title: ladies mile; title: Keeping Warm; title: dove; title: hesperides; title: torches; title: from a woman, a rose, and what has it to do with her or they with one another?; title: wilderness; title: faith and rage; title: cairo vessel 1; title: cairo vessel 2; title: future song; title: the words; title: verde, verde, verde; title: she counts ten angels; title: domingo; title: house of the fountains; title: work for the living; title: mirabile dictu; title: tell your mama; title: slow reader; title: primavera; title: keep this book clean; title: peri poietikes; title: more like wellington every day; title: spirits bay; title: listening; title: degli angeli; title: never dreaming; title: lomu; title: olive; title: experiments (our life together) a brief history of time; title: matapōuri; title: The Fascicles; title: Emily and her sisters; title: from figures in the distance; title: the wedding party; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the Author,