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The Permanent Wave
Siobhan Campbell
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Paperback. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy.
Campbell's first collection is composed with her painter's eye, "turning thought to flame" in an intense scrutiny of the hidden desires at the heart of dally life, revealing the way we forge our identities within the eternal pattern of birth, aging, and death. Her "narrative" poems stay in the reader's mind -- a grandmother uses religion to transform her sexuality; a sister's gift of a dictionary tests "the limits of language"; a daughter's world is shattered when she finds her father's cache of pornography. Throughout the book, there is a strong presence of the poet herself as she writes of ... Read more
Campbell's first collection is composed with her painter's eye, "turning thought to flame" in an intense scrutiny of the hidden desires at the heart of dally life, revealing the way we forge our identities within the eternal pattern of birth, aging, and death. Her "narrative" poems stay in the reader's mind -- a grandmother uses religion to transform her sexuality; a sister's gift of a dictionary tests "the limits of language"; a daughter's world is shattered when she finds her father's cache of pornography. Throughout the book, there is a strong presence of the poet herself as she writes of ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856405723
SKU
KEX0281390
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
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