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Author Fiebig, Jess, author

Title My honest poem / Jess Fiebig
Published Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2020

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Contents Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I have no sense of direction -- Maternal Distance -- Milk Teeth -- Genetic Conjugation -- Fawns and Foals -- Dislocation -- Spring -- Picking Cherries -- This is Poetry -- Hagley Park in Summer -- For Kelly -- I get lost in lovers -- Dawning -- Textures of You -- Divination -- Tremble -- Shinjuku -- Saturdays at Bailey's Irish Bar -- As We Stand Back on Sumner Beach -- To My Little Sister (Who I Pretend Doesn't Exist) -- Communion -- Te Anau -- Cardiogenic Words -- Hypnic Jerk
Party After Riccarton Races -- Knots -- Kitchen Sink -- Camping on Banks Peninsula -- Nearly -- Loving a Depressive -- Girlfriendship -- Waiuta -- Amitriptyline Dreams -- Concussion -- Calling Hours -- Lost Friend -- Panic -- Mickel -- Guilt Trip -- Cry, Babe -- Saturday Night in the Emergency Department -- Duck Hunting -- Descent into Poetry -- The Night I Knew I Had to Leave My Man -- Morning After -- The Last Part of Leaving -- I enjoy listening to sad songs -- The Following Summer -- Oracles and Crunchy Peanuts -- Moving In -- For Chagall's Wife, Bella
Seeing My Father Across the Road at Twenty-Seven -- Wild Poppies -- Parting -- Searching for Gentleness -- Dead Man's Point -- Slaughter -- What I Would Say to Him, Now -- Mary, from Timaru -- Twenty-Seventh Christmas -- Palmistry -- My Honest Poem
Summary A moving account in poetry of one woman's pathway through violence and addiction. "at six, my mother's boyfriend forced his fat hairy hand inside my heart-shaped face for eating too many Fruit Bursts we bought a tube of them at BP wrapped individually in pastel wax papers which littered the backseat like sweet-smelling confetti his hand tasted of salt a metallic tang of rust the hot edge of petrol from the pump still lingering on his fingers" My Honest Poem is a moving and powerful poetry collection that follows recovery from a life fractured by family violence and addiction. It is a coming-of-age story of a young New Zealand woman rebuilding strength and hope in the spaces left by trauma
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 31, 2020)
Subject New Zealand poetry -- 21st century
Women Authors.
New Zealand poetry
Genre/Form Electronic books
poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781776710607
1776710606