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The Pearl King and Other Poems
Catherine Greenwood
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Éditeur:
Brick Books
Brick Books
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2004
2004
ISBN-13:
9781926829630
Description:
<p><strong>Notable Book in the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards</strong></p>
<p>Catherine Greenwood draws on the stories and legends which surround the development of cultured pearls by Mikimoto, the fabulous Pearl King, to engage a rich array of themes, including the clash between an aesthetics of refinement and nuance, and mass manufacture. With discerning wit and a large range of styles and voices, she holds up each subject for contemplation as though it were a pearl, and explores the sometimes bizarre consequences of an overwhelming rage for beauty.</p>
<p>As the seal is strong and breathes air,<br />
As the fish is quick and breathes water,<br />
So make me, a mermaid strong and quick.</p>
<p>Bless me with abalone abundant as mushrooms,<br />
Oysters dropping ripe as plums into my palm.<br />
Let my births keep me ashore a few days only,<br />
Only for a little while let labour make me rest.</p>
<p>from "The Diving Girls’ Prayer"</p>
<p>When, in other sections of the book, Catherine Greenwood turns her attention to such matters as the still birth of a calf, teeth, moles, or the Shetland Island stone, she does so with the same care for the exact fit of style, the same sharply-angled craft.</p>
<p>"The ancient Taoists believed that a pearl was grounded at the soul’s centre, that it took wisdom and clarity to create its essence. Catherine Greenwood’s first collection of poems is proof of that. Here is a new pearl, the beginning of a strand I hope, that will continue to be added to with such depth of field and luminosity." - Don Domanski</p>
<p>Catherine Greenwood draws on the stories and legends which surround the development of cultured pearls by Mikimoto, the fabulous Pearl King, to engage a rich array of themes, including the clash between an aesthetics of refinement and nuance, and mass manufacture. With discerning wit and a large range of styles and voices, she holds up each subject for contemplation as though it were a pearl, and explores the sometimes bizarre consequences of an overwhelming rage for beauty.</p>
<p>As the seal is strong and breathes air,<br />
As the fish is quick and breathes water,<br />
So make me, a mermaid strong and quick.</p>
<p>Bless me with abalone abundant as mushrooms,<br />
Oysters dropping ripe as plums into my palm.<br />
Let my births keep me ashore a few days only,<br />
Only for a little while let labour make me rest.</p>
<p>from "The Diving Girls’ Prayer"</p>
<p>When, in other sections of the book, Catherine Greenwood turns her attention to such matters as the still birth of a calf, teeth, moles, or the Shetland Island stone, she does so with the same care for the exact fit of style, the same sharply-angled craft.</p>
<p>"The ancient Taoists believed that a pearl was grounded at the soul’s centre, that it took wisdom and clarity to create its essence. Catherine Greenwood’s first collection of poems is proof of that. Here is a new pearl, the beginning of a strand I hope, that will continue to be added to with such depth of field and luminosity." - Don Domanski</p>
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