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Moth hour / Anne Kennedy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 101 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869408947
  • 1869408942
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • NZ821.3 23
Summary: "In 1973, Anne Kennedy's brother Philip was partying on a hillside when he accidentally fell to his death. Among books and records, Philip left a poem typed in Courier on thick, cream, letter-sized paper...In 'Moth hour,' Anne Kennedy returns to the death of her brother and the world he inhabited, writing 'Thirty-three transformations on a theme of Philip' and concluding with a longer poem, 'The Thé'"--Publisher's website.
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Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 821 KEN Available T00824336
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A complex, moving and ambitious poetic engagement with the death of a brother. The family didn't know what to do about grief. The noisy house went silent. I was fourteen. I lay on the red rug in the sitting room and listened to Beethoven's Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120 - over and over because it was there. In 1973, Anne Kennedy's brother Philip was partying on a hillside when he accidentally fell to his death. Among books and records, Philip left a poem typed in Courier on thick, cream, letter-sized paper. Come catch me little child And put me in a jar . . . In Moth Hour, Anne Kennedy returns to the death of her brother and the world he inhabited, writing 'Thirty-Three Transformations on a Theme of Philip' and concluding with a longer poem, 'The Thé'. Kennedy's extraordinary poems grapple with the rebellious world of her brother and his friends in the 1970s; with grief and loss; with the arch of time. The poems reach into the threads of the past to build patterns, grasped for a moment and then unravelling in one's hands. Moth Hour is a complex, ambitious piece of writing and a moving poetic engagement with tragedy.

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

"In 1973, Anne Kennedy's brother Philip was partying on a hillside when he accidentally fell to his death. Among books and records, Philip left a poem typed in Courier on thick, cream, letter-sized paper...In 'Moth hour,' Anne Kennedy returns to the death of her brother and the world he inhabited, writing 'Thirty-three transformations on a theme of Philip' and concluding with a longer poem, 'The Thé'"--Publisher's website.

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