Demonstrategy

Demonstrategy PDF

Author: H. L. Hix

Publisher: Etruscan Press

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1733674101

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Against the busy background of the “information age” and the “anthropocene,” where’s poetry? It might seem invisible, irrelevant, but Demonstrategy proves it as salient as ever, and more urgent. In paired essays about poetry in the world and the world in poetry, Demonstrategy finds poetry’s pulse steady and strong.

Sons for the Return Home

Sons for the Return Home PDF

Author: Albert Wendt

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1996-06-30

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780824817961

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Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this simple, powerful story of cross-cultural encounter.

Legible Heavens

Legible Heavens PDF

Author: H. L. Hix

Publisher: Etruscan Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 0979745047

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"Legible Heavens explores what the most intimate forms of experience reveal about our most cosmic concerns, and vice versa. Its four sequences act like compass points to orient a human landscape. On one axis, "Star Chart for the Rainy Season" laments love lost, appealing to the biblical assertion that "love is stronger than death, and passion more cruel," in contrast to "Material Implication," which celebrates love found, in sonnets of desire insistently "glowing against the dusk." On the other axis, "All the One-Eyed Boys in Town" treats love as perdition, the speaker imagining his life as "a match scratched down your wingbones," in contrast to "Synopsis," which treats love as salvation, reinscribing the biblical gospels (canonical and apocryphal alike) to "solicit a miracle I must not expect.""--BOOK JACKET.