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Night as day / Nikki-Lee Birdsey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Victoria University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 122 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781776562190
  • 1776562194
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR9639.4.B56 A6 2019
Contents:
I. Naturalisation. Cette terre homicide (This murderous land) -- Augustland -- The long nineteenth century -- Mutuwhenua -- The Great Western Hotel -- The Undergraduate -- Foreign & domestic -- II. Objects (Roses de vents). Objects 1 -- Objects 2 -- Objects 3 -- Objects 4 -- Objects 5 -- Objects 6 -- Objects 7 -- Objects 8 -- Objects 9 -- Objects 10 -- Objects 11 -- Objects 12 -- III. Cartographic life. Halloween song -- Birthday song -- Dream baby dream -- War song -- The blue hour -- Penny & me -- RotoVegas -- Total eclipse of -- The green ray -- Three -- Two -- One -- Commentary: these lives.
Summary: "In her first book, Nikki-Lee Birdsey takes readers from a remote sheep station in the South Island to the neon signs of Queens; from a hotel in Piha to a Walt Whitman Rest Area in New Jersey; from intimately known cities to remembered landscapes. Night as Day describes a New Zealand that is overlapped by the United States and the challenges and almost-joys of navigating between these places, identities and homecomings. Balancing artistic experimentation with frank expression, these poems are mesmerising in their intelligence and beauty."-- Publisher description.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 821 BIR Available T00815763
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In her first book, Nikki-Lee Birdsey takes readers from a remote sheep station in the South Island to the neon signs of Queens; from a hotel in Piha to a Walt Whitman Rest Area in New Jersey; from intimately known cities to remembered landscapes. Night as Day describes a New Zealand that is overlapped by the United States and the challenges and almost-joys of navigating between these places, identities and homecomings. Balancing artistic experimentation with frank expression, these poems are mesmerising in their intelligence and beauty.

Poems with commentary.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Naturalisation. Cette terre homicide (This murderous land) -- Augustland -- The long nineteenth century -- Mutuwhenua -- The Great Western Hotel -- The Undergraduate -- Foreign & domestic -- II. Objects (Roses de vents). Objects 1 -- Objects 2 -- Objects 3 -- Objects 4 -- Objects 5 -- Objects 6 -- Objects 7 -- Objects 8 -- Objects 9 -- Objects 10 -- Objects 11 -- Objects 12 -- III. Cartographic life. Halloween song -- Birthday song -- Dream baby dream -- War song -- The blue hour -- Penny & me -- RotoVegas -- Total eclipse of -- The green ray -- Three -- Two -- One -- Commentary: these lives.

"In her first book, Nikki-Lee Birdsey takes readers from a remote sheep station in the South Island to the neon signs of Queens; from a hotel in Piha to a Walt Whitman Rest Area in New Jersey; from intimately known cities to remembered landscapes. Night as Day describes a New Zealand that is overlapped by the United States and the challenges and almost-joys of navigating between these places, identities and homecomings. Balancing artistic experimentation with frank expression, these poems are mesmerising in their intelligence and beauty."-- Publisher description.

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