Brief Lives

by Chris Price

Overview

Bold and original, this collection is a genre-busting sequence of poetry and prose that confronts the place where mortality meets creativity. Using discontinuous narrative and alphabetical order, the author constructs a series of vignettes mixing biography, autobiography, arcane snippets of information, and meditations on life as performance. Written with great lucidity, this strange and captivating dictionary of fragments offers funny, thoughtful, and moving reflections on life, art, and the unknown.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775580300
Publisher:	Auckland University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2013
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	878 KB

About the Author

Chris Price is a poet, editor, teacher, musician, singer, and arts administrator and a professor at Victoria University of Wellington. She has served as editor for New Zealand's longest-running literary magazine Landfall and is the author of the poetry collection Husk.

Table of Contents

CONTENTSBrief LivesChris Price1869403630After the PartyThe AgeAltitude SicknessAnne CarsonAnthonyBiographical FallacyCalmCollectorOn CompositionCreation StoriesDionysianDisposableDream lifeEves DaughterThe FallenFamily WisdomFire and WaterHarry PartchHildegard of BingenHorologistJesus of MontparnasseLotts MotherMaxThe Next DayNotebookOther DictionariesPathological AnatomyPetrarchs BonesPrayer WheelRehabilitationThe Serpent LecturesSingaporeSpecimen JarThe Unhappiness of Holidays[Untitled]XylothèqueZoopraxiscope¯Variable Stars¯Acknowledgements