ISBN: 9781877578939 - the conch trumpet (6 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 220 x 11. Weight in Grams: 182. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Calling to the scattered tribes of contemporary New Zealand, The Conch Trumpet sounds the signal to listen close, critically, and 'in alert reverie.' David Eggleton's reach of references, the marriage of high and low, the grasp of popular and classical allusion, his eye both for cultural trash and epiphanic beauty, make it seem as if here Shakespeare shakes down in the Pacific. There are dazzling compressions of history; astonishing paens to harbours, mountains, lakes, and rivers; wrenchingly dark, satirical critiques of contemporary politics, solipsism, narcissism, the apolitical, and the corporate, with a teeming vocabulary to match. And often too a sense of the imperative, grounding reality of the phenomenal world--the thisness of things: cloud whispers brush daylight's ear, fern question marks form a bush encore, forlorn heat swings cobbed in webs. In this latest collection, David Eggleton is court jester, philosopher, lyricist, and a kind of male Cassandra, roving warningly from primeval swampland to gritty cityscape to the information and disinformation cybercloud. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnCalling to the scattered tribes of contemporary New Zealand, The Conch Trumpet sounds the signal to listen close, critically, and &quotin alert reverie.&quot David Eggleton&aposs reach of references, the marriage of high and lo.