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Author Edmond, Martin

Title Waimarino County : & Other Excursions
Published Chicago : Auckland University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright; Epigraph; Contents; 1 AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; Waimarino County; The Hallelujah Chorus; Going South; Prospect Bay; On Trains; On Film; Diptych; 2 MEDITATIONS; Gold Tops; Satin Brush Superb; Folk Tale; Rosetta; An.aesthetic; ... Among the ruins with the poor; Lighting Out for the Territory; The Oblate of Unknowing; The Abandoned House as a Refuge for the Imagination; Entoptics; The Inconsolable Song; Strangers in the House of the Mind; 3 ILLUSIONS; Series of Dreams; Marine; El Camino Real; Words on Maps; Three; Hawthorne Canal; Mighty Dread; Westbound Train; Occultation; Welladay
Local HistoryOasis; Rain; There is Joy in Being Where the Angels Are; B, D & M; Realia; The Avatar of Venus; Arrivée d'un Départ; Cirque; The Impossibilities; In Crocodilopolis; 4 VOICES; Ghost Who Writes; Afterword
Summary Looking outwards, into the past, and to the natural landscape for inspiration, these masterful essays offer elegant ruminations on the experience of living. Divided into four distinct sections, the collection explores memories of a small-town childhood, examines subjects such as the Rosetta Stone, and investigates the meaning of dreams before delivering its grand finale: a meditation on the mysterious identity of a writer
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Subject Edmond, Martin
Edmond, Martin.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Waimarino County (N.Z.)
New Zealand -- Waimarino County.
Form Electronic book
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