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The Wings of Angels
Jeffs Sandy
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Description for The Wings of Angels
Paperback. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 8. Weight in Grams: 138.
Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Sandy Jeffs' poetry has a stark dignity, capable of conveying "shudders of intense fear". Yet in the midst of her rigours, she can access a voice both wild and funny. Sandy Jeffs' leavening sense of humour peoples her darkness with the sirens of the supermarket, a tinsel paradise and high-tech technicolour Armageddon. After all, God is only a word and angels, although mad, sing the wanderer into paradise.
Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Sandy Jeffs' poetry has a stark dignity, capable of conveying "shudders of intense fear". Yet in the midst of her rigours, she can access a voice both wild and funny. Sandy Jeffs' leavening sense of humour peoples her darkness with the sirens of the supermarket, a tinsel paradise and high-tech technicolour Armageddon. After all, God is only a word and angels, although mad, sing the wanderer into paradise.
Product Details
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
100
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
138 g
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9781876756512
SKU
V9781876756512
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About Jeffs Sandy
Sandy Jeffs is a Melbourne poet who has published five volumes of poetry and a memoir. Her first book Poems from the Madhouse was awarded second place in the FAW Anne Elder poetry prize 1994. Her memoir Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness was shortlisted for the 2010 Age Book of the Year, named SANE Book of ... Read more
Reviews for The Wings of Angels
"A series of poems with a theatrical quality that is haunting in its exposure of the ritualistic violence perpetrated in the family home... These poems emerge like flowers on top of boiling water." Jeltje, "Five Bells, The Magazine of the Poets Union," on "Blood Relations"