LIBROS DEL AUTOR: angela gardner

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  • Slippage
    Angela Gardner
    For an immigrant, the relationship with a new country develops over time. In poems that investigate place, belonging, dislocation, fear, and catastrophe, Slippage charts Angela Gardner’s complex relationship with Australia taking us through wonder and joy, to guilt, misunderstanding, and distance. Slippage takes the reader onto the unstable ground of a history constantly select...
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    15,74 €

  • The Closed Spaces
    Angela Gardner
    In this collection Angela Gardner explores the many ways of looking. Ripped by a wind that raptures, The Closed Spaces explores the human intertwine of pain and bliss, asking: are we windows or mirrors? How can we hold and restore our attention, resisting the commodification of our gaze? In a society under pressure who gets to look and who is seen? Showcasing a dirty and unequa...
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    17,80 €

  • The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette
    Angela Gardner
    The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette tells the tale of the author’s great-grandmother’s cousin, Richard Parker, a cabin-boy on a yacht being sailed from Southampton to Sydney in 1884 for Jack Want a prominent New South Wales barrister and politician. The Mignonette foundered in the South Atlantic far from land, and after nineteen days with no sight of any other vessel to rescue the...
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    17,91 €

  • The Told World
    Angela Gardner
    'With this fine collection Gardner’s work achieves what one poem describes as 'beauty itself / taut against the half-life rendering.' Human experience is the shadow cast by these poems, and not the other way around. 'A wholeness ghost-licked or absent / gets caught in the machinery,' Gardner observes, and yet these fearlessly unhaunted poems serve to backlight the ghosts that...
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    15,84 €

  • Views of the Hudson
    Angela Gardner
    ’Views of the Hudson’, written during a visit to New York in 2008, explores ideas of belonging and displacement. In a flood of images from this overcrowded information-rich city it weaves a narrative that suggests both the intoxication and dangers of believing in Promised Lands. Views of the Hudson shows the life of a city that is complicated and enriched for being at once both...
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    15,78 €