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The mask and the jagged star / Jill Jones.

By: Series: Hazard poetsPublisher: Melbourne, Vic. ; Christchurch, N.Z. : Hazard Press, 1992Description: 56 p. ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0908790406 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 821.3
Contents:
1. In the neighbourhood (Saturday morning in Ashfield ; Conversations in cars with the engines running ; The country near the city ; If you're in the neighbourhood ; Hyperventilating in the supermarket ; The silence of the suburbs ; Been to postcode 5075 ; Nosferatu in the suburbs) -- 2. Familiar rooms (Anniversaries and places ; Third floor outrider ; in the distance on the verandah ; Around the white vase ; soap opera salad ; beyond the silence of decaying fruit ; if there is a pure morning) -- 3. Maps and scaffolding, people and sunlight. (Transformation in a city bvlock ; Gathering of tribes ; You are so correct now ; the phantom division ; The administration of winter ; Trying to steal the myth of lawns and fences ; Cruising on a ridge ofsilence ; Boys go crazy ; The tram poem ; "the square is full of people").
4. Postcards and souvenirs. (What you've lost is what you keep on losing ; You and me at the Basement with Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, and her ; The postcard of a harbour in another country ; The Sound of Jazz: 1958 ; the sound of children and mudcrabs ; the feeding of the birds ; For Katherine Mansfield, one hundred years away) -- 5. Stars and masks. (Five on the harbour ; the new laws of contracts ; Ex-lovers at the half-moon ; The coming of the death star ; in our own privacy ; A flash, a sideways movement; mother, I am waiting now to tell you ; Balcony).
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 821.3 JON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67634

Poems.

Signed by the author.

Jan Craney bequest.

1. In the neighbourhood (Saturday morning in Ashfield ; Conversations in cars with the engines running ; The country near the city ; If you're in the neighbourhood ; Hyperventilating in the supermarket ; The silence of the suburbs ; Been to postcode 5075 ; Nosferatu in the suburbs) -- 2. Familiar rooms (Anniversaries and places ; Third floor outrider ; in the distance on the verandah ; Around the white vase ; soap opera salad ; beyond the silence of decaying fruit ; if there is a pure morning) -- 3. Maps and scaffolding, people and sunlight. (Transformation in a city bvlock ; Gathering of tribes ; You are so correct now ; the phantom division ; The administration of winter ; Trying to steal the myth of lawns and fences ; Cruising on a ridge ofsilence ; Boys go crazy ; The tram poem ; "the square is full of people").

4. Postcards and souvenirs. (What you've lost is what you keep on losing ; You and me at the Basement with Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, and her ; The postcard of a harbour in another country ; The Sound of Jazz: 1958 ; the sound of children and mudcrabs ; the feeding of the birds ; For Katherine Mansfield, one hundred years away) -- 5. Stars and masks. (Five on the harbour ; the new laws of contracts ; Ex-lovers at the half-moon ; The coming of the death star ; in our own privacy ; A flash, a sideways movement; mother, I am waiting now to tell you ; Balcony).

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