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Slip Stream
Paula Green
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Description for Slip Stream
Paperback. Slip Stream is both a moving but uplifting book about a experience with cancer and a writer's thoughtful exploration of how life may (or may not) be expressed in words. AUP's reader called it 'a brave and healing book full of pleasures'. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 100 x 100 x 100. Weight in Grams: 200.
Through Slip Stream, Paula Green is interested in how to balance a challenging experience against the continuation of everyday life, and proposes small distractions and coping strategies: solving cryptic crossword puzzles, for example, the mock-clues of which are scattered through the poems. Making up a fluid, intensely felt narrative, these poems are untitled and mostly short, charting time passing and seasons turning by procedures done, books read, appointments made, food cooked and dreams dreamed. The language used is deceptively simple, but the poems speak to each other by these links, tricks and coping games. Though clearly deriving from Green's own ... Read more
Through Slip Stream, Paula Green is interested in how to balance a challenging experience against the continuation of everyday life, and proposes small distractions and coping strategies: solving cryptic crossword puzzles, for example, the mock-clues of which are scattered through the poems. Making up a fluid, intensely felt narrative, these poems are untitled and mostly short, charting time passing and seasons turning by procedures done, books read, appointments made, food cooked and dreams dreamed. The language used is deceptively simple, but the poems speak to each other by these links, tricks and coping games. Though clearly deriving from Green's own ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869404628
SKU
V9781869404628
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Paula Green
Paula Green has published two previous collections of poetry, Cookhouse and Chrome. She has just completed a doctoral thesis on 20th-century Italian women writers. She lives in West Auckland with her partner, painter Michael Hight, and family.
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