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Brief Lives - paperback (Paperback)
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Brief Lives - paperback (Paperback)
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Chris Price won the NZSA Award for Best First Book of Poetry with
her collection Husk (AUP, 2002). This second book, Brief Lives, is
a surprise - a collection of prose poems of varying lengths,
followed by a long essay, all elaborate and inventive variations on
a theme. Brief Lives is a dictionary of biographical fragments and
reflections on known and unknown figures. Chris describes it as 'a
meditation on mortality and the tasks of recording, collection and
recollection that we quixotically undertake to stave it off'. She
explores human lives as performances or works of art, often
peculiar or eccentric, and it is itself an example of this creative
oddity. Chris writes with great lucidity and takes meticulous care
in the arrangement of the pieces (by alphabetical order of title)
and in the measured tone which allows elements of autobiography
along with amazing snippets of arcane knowledge, a method somewhat
reminiscent of Martin Edmond's awardwinning Chronicle of the
Unsung. The final essay, on the French writer Villiers De L'Isle
Adam, is brilliant - funny, warm, thoughtful and moving. In this
bold and original work, fitting no established genre, Chris Price
is taking New Zealand writing into unfamiliar territory.
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