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In Continents
Richard Reeve
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Description for In Continents
Paperback. Examines a catalogue of historical incidents - from the violence of Tiberius and Edward III to the death of James Cook's Polynesian companion, Tupaia - to illustrate the habitual barbarity, selfishness and stupidity of humans, in counterpoint with our prospective responsibility as stewards of the divine. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBN; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 166 x 3. Weight in Grams: 145.
In his third collection, Richard Reeve examines a catalogue of historical incidents - from the violence of Tiberius and Edward III to the death of James Cook's Polynesian companion, Tupaia - to illustrate the habitual barbarity, selfishness and stupidity of humans, in counterpoint with our prospective responsibility as stewards of the divine. ""In Continents"" contrasts grace with atavism, imaginative transcendence with the determinative structures of biology, culture and belief. Humans - the clever apes - live and die in age-old continents yet, he demonstrates, behave incontinently.Using a local example, Reeve reflects on the environmental conflict raging in his locality over ... Read more
In his third collection, Richard Reeve examines a catalogue of historical incidents - from the violence of Tiberius and Edward III to the death of James Cook's Polynesian companion, Tupaia - to illustrate the habitual barbarity, selfishness and stupidity of humans, in counterpoint with our prospective responsibility as stewards of the divine. ""In Continents"" contrasts grace with atavism, imaginative transcendence with the determinative structures of biology, culture and belief. Humans - the clever apes - live and die in age-old continents yet, he demonstrates, behave incontinently.Using a local example, Reeve reflects on the environmental conflict raging in his locality over ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869404062
SKU
V9781869404062
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About Richard Reeve
Richard Reeve has published two earlier collections of poems, Dialectic of Mud (AUP, 2001) and The Life and the Dark (AUP, 2004). He won the Macmillan Brown Prize for Poetry in 1998 and the $20,000 Todd Foundation New Writer's Bursary in 2002/03. He works as an editor for Otago University Press and is the Chair of the environmental group, The ... Read more
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