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Rumors of the Turning Wheel
Anne Halley
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Description for Rumors of the Turning Wheel
Paperback. Centred around the wheel of fortune - as much the sideshow at the fair as Fortuna's art, rumours of all kinds fill the air in this collection as the wheel's turnings stir the air. Rumours of war, strange births, rape, the collapse of powerful houses and incestuous loves, and always of death. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 163 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
The title of this powerful collection refers to the wheel of fortune. In a time long before television game shows, a wood and wire crank-driven mechanism would be set up and turned by hand at fairs and carnivals, next to the puppet-show booth, the pot and pan vendors, and the horsedrawn carousel. Country folk and children watched to see where the turning wheel would stop and if their folded paper ""chance"" might reveal the lucky number that won a prize. The wheel turns more noisily, portentously, and can take on disguised or secret forms when Fortuna concerns herself with the ... Read more
The title of this powerful collection refers to the wheel of fortune. In a time long before television game shows, a wood and wire crank-driven mechanism would be set up and turned by hand at fairs and carnivals, next to the puppet-show booth, the pot and pan vendors, and the horsedrawn carousel. Country folk and children watched to see where the turning wheel would stop and if their folded paper ""chance"" might reveal the lucky number that won a prize. The wheel turns more noisily, portentously, and can take on disguised or secret forms when Fortuna concerns herself with the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558494008
SKU
V9781558494008
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About Anne Halley
Anne Halley lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is a poetry editor of The Massachusetts Review.
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