One Shapely Thing: Poems and Journals
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
One Shapely Thing: Poems and Journals
By (Author) Dinah Hawken
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
4th July 2006
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
NZ821.2
Short-listed for Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Poetry Category 2007
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Description
Clearly demonstrating how her poetry is drawn from personal experience, this bold and innovative collection of new poems exemplifies characteristic themes of her work: personal responsibility, social justice, and living in the natural world. Additionally, two prose journalsone written in the month following September 11, while her husband worked at the United Nations in New York City, and the second written while they were in Geneva in early 2002 when the U.S. response to September 11 was taking shapefurther explore these themes and her response to these events.
Author Bio
Dinah Hawken is the author of It Has No Sound and Is Blue; Oh There You Are Tui; Small Stories of Devotion; and Water, Leaves, Stones.
