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A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex
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Description for A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex
Paperback. Editor(s): Bagby, Stu. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBN; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 175.
From Shakespeare's sonnets to Japanese Haikus, we all know that poetry is the literature of love. But do the poets have lustier moments? Do they ever think about sex? In this collection, New Zealand's most well loved poets give a great grunt in the affirmative. They tackle sex from every angle. Sex can be funny (C K Stead's ""tree in my trousers"") or disturbing (Rachel McAlpine's ""scary poem about my breasts""). It can be ordinary (""The sex life of the sheep is at best perfunctory,"" Anne French explains) or extraordinary (""you are not what you were before we knew each ... Read more
From Shakespeare's sonnets to Japanese Haikus, we all know that poetry is the literature of love. But do the poets have lustier moments? Do they ever think about sex? In this collection, New Zealand's most well loved poets give a great grunt in the affirmative. They tackle sex from every angle. Sex can be funny (C K Stead's ""tree in my trousers"") or disturbing (Rachel McAlpine's ""scary poem about my breasts""). It can be ordinary (""The sex life of the sheep is at best perfunctory,"" Anne French explains) or extraordinary (""you are not what you were before we knew each ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869404031
SKU
V9781869404031
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About
Editor and poet Stu Bagby (known to some as the gravedigger poet) was born in Te Koporu in 1947. His work made up one third of AUP New Poets 2 and has published a solo collection As It Was in the Beginning (Steele Roberts) that was nominated by the Sunday Star Times as one of the best books of 2005. ... Read more
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