Wooroloo: Poems - Softcover

Hughes, Frieda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060930020 ISBN 13: 9780060930028

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: November 1999 Pages: 80 in Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Welcome to the meticulously observed world of Frieda Hughes It is a world of tangible for materially materially constantly on the ink of change a world a populated with foxes and fire. Fathers and lovers. mothers and birdmen-a world that is ultimately combustible. fragile. fearsome. and elegiacally beautiful. Hughes maps the landscape. both within and without. in language possessed of an almost painterly sensitivity and a sublime mastery of craft. The self she depicts is one who is tested by loss. danger. betrayal. and abandonment. yet one who is transformed through experience into a world beyond nihilism and despair a place that makes possible truth. strength of character. and the redemptive power ...

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Review:

"Hughes has a poet's gaze and a vivid, often searing style."--" San Diego Union-Tribune""Frieda Hughes rides on no one's shoulders. She Is her own poet. Her work, at its best, is sharp, vigorous and cunning. Her vision Is strange and imaginative, at times possessing the odd lilting rhythms and surreal imagery of a dark and menacing nursery rhyme.""-- Denver Post""Highly accomplished ... a major debut.""-- Kirkus Reviews (Starred)"

About the Author:

Born in London in 1960, Frieda Hughes is a painter and poet. She has also written children's books, and was The Times (London) poetry columnist from 2006 to 2008. Frieda's first collection of poetry, Wooroloo, was named after the hamlet in western Australia where she lived during the 1990s. Other collections followed: Stonepicker; Waxworks; Forty-five, a collection of autobiographical poems based on her life to the age of forty-five; The Book of Mirrors; and Alternative Values. In this last book, Frieda used the subject of her poems to inform the accompanying abstract images--painted in oils on canvas--combining the two driving forces in her life. Her poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The London Magazine, The Times (London), and The Spectator (London). Frieda resides in Wales with owls and motorbikes.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060930020
• ISBN 13: 9780060930028
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80