Hera Lindsay BirdHera Lindsay Bird
Taschenbuch
New Zealand's best-selling poetry collection, from the mysterious force behind such classics as ' Monica' (as in, the one from Friends) and ' Keats is Dead so F**k Me from Behind'this impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl. . . . . . with many beneficial thoughts and feelings. . . . . . with themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . juxtaposing many classical and modern breezes Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog. . . . . . or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert. . . . . . . . . this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness. . . . . . heart-breaking and charged with trees. . . . . . without once sacrificing the forest. . . . . . . . . . . . whether you are masturbating luxuriously in your parents' sleepout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or pushing a pork roast home in a vintage pram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . this is the book for you. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . heroically and compulsively stupid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . whipping you once again into medieval sunlight. P R A I S E F O R H E R A L I N D S A Y B I R D' I think there's a pretty strong case which suggests Hera Lindsay Bird is like the most exciting newish poet in N Z' - Steve Braunias' On more than one occasion, while working through a poem, I have found myself asking, what would Hera Lindsay Bird do? ' - Bill Manhire' Hi, dear, we have to say how much we enjoyed, if right word, the Hate poem. Really made us think, loved the line about the ancient cannon' - Text message from Ashleigh Young's mum' The wickedest problem in Hera Lindsay Bird is not sex but taste' - John Newton
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