Research Catalog

Title

How to tour the world on a flying fox / Marisa Cappetta.

Author

Cappetta, Marisa

Publication

• Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand : Steele Roberts Aotearoa, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

64 pages; 21 cm

Summary

These poems are a beautiful ensemble of intricate forms and symphonic notes. A rookery, a hermitage, a neat recipe for apple strudel, an anemographic analysis of wedded bliss, a eulogy to mermaids: all this and more lies in store in this stunning collection. Discovery of its unexpected, creative, multilayered places is continuously enriched by Marisa's deeply excavated truths. ~ Siobhan Harvey As a jeweller, Marisa Cappetta makes pieces that are often ingenious and quirky constructs bringing together disparate elements of material, texture and colour. Her poems, too, are wonderful constructs, products of a soaring imagination and sometimes surreal connection, which, coupled with a keen eye and a poet's sensibility, make for a wonderful ride for reader or listener. ~ James Norcliffe.

Subjects

• Poetry
• New Zealand poetry > 21st century
• 2000-2099

Genre/Form

• New Zealand poetry – 21st century.
• Poetry

Note

• Poems.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

We are a map: -- Two birds to Waterfall -- Kite weather -- Glossary of birthing terms -- Knitting lessons -- Apple strudel -- Concertina -- Coven -- Passage to Australia -- The bass player retires to a hermitage -- My father sews his way to me -- In the rookery -- Her bones an office of records -- birth death & marriage: -- The bride of Elvis -- And in the centre ring -- A husband is a weathervane -- In the bonds -- We are here to join -- Monstrous -- Love language -- The skull in the wall -- The storm after a separation -- My parents' divorce -- Six months after your death -- She was there in the room -- The accountant cries -- Cleaning house -- Eulogy for a mermaid -- The silversmith self-diagnoses -- My love in the bindery -- Waiting for a lover on Rabbit Island -- Found farther and farther out -- Not tonight -- You are the dirt beneath my fingernails -- Biological name for moth -- Dreams of thickets: -- How it happened that a carpenter found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child -- How to tour the world on a flying fox -- The woodsman buries his face in a scrap of her cape -- Lessons from the goose treasure hunt -- Madame Bovary buys a cello -- The woman in the bay tree -- The water gleaners -- The silversmith becomes a wandering blacksmith -- Coracle -- She's always had the gift of flight -- Water Widow -- a three-act opera -- Glossary & acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 9780947493318
• 094749331X

OCLC

• 973197504
• SCSB-11943350

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library