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The Other Half
by Wright, Judith
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Huntington, New York, United States
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967. 51 pp. Some rubbing and small tears to price-clipped dj. 'The themes of the book range from Adam and Eve to ''Typists in the Pheonix Building'', from Hafiz to Shiraz to Shaw Neilson, to the city dawn to the legend of a dark-skinned Endymion of New Guinea; yet in spite of its diversity there is an underlying unity which is aptly summarized in the title, for almost all the poems are concerned, one way or another, with ''the other half''. It is a search for the reconcilement of seeming opposites, for singleness amongst the apparent duality of the universe, which is expressed at its deepest in poems as ''Prayer'', ''Naked Girl and Mirror'', and the title poem in which the apparently divided elements in the psyche ''meet at last . . . and turn into one truth in singleness.'' ' 'Poets are always writing about the sea: / poets are people who want the sea to be real. / Vanities, smuts and despairs are found in the city; / the country is notorious for stupidity; / inland and littoral are glutted with grey humanity; / so poets require the sea, make the sea real.'--from ''Jack Blight.''. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Veery Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000420
- Title
- The Other Half
- Author
- Wright, Judith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- poetry, australian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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