| Description |
1 online resource (86 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; contents; The Year of the Ox; Sphinx on Stilts; Coal; A Great Education; Poor Petal; George Jeffreys 11: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Langley; George Jeffreys 12: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Oslo; George Jeffreys 13: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Beijing; George Jeffreys: 14: George Jeffreys Woke Up in Sharm el Sheikh; Emerald-cut; Hillary and Eleanor 8: The Audience; Hillary and Eleanor 9: The Pearl Roundabout; In the International Pavilion; Deep River; Diary Poem: Uses of Liquid Nitrogen; Diary Poem: Uses of the Civil War; Diary Poem: Uses of Powerlessness; Sydney Confidential. |
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Circling the High NotesCarina; My heart has an Embassy; Well Inside Fireground. |
| Summary |
Jennifer Maiden's poems are like verse essays, subjecting the political issues of our time, and the figures who dominate them, to a fierce scrutiny, while allowing the personal aspects of experience to be portrayed in the most delicate and imaginative ways. This is the quality of liquid nitrogen which gives the book its title - 'the frozen suspension which is risky/ but also fecund and has beauty' - it is a substance which permits the most intense and heated interactions, and at the same time, the survival of delicate organisms. In the cool medium of Maiden's poetry Julia Gillard confronts her. |
| Subject |
Australian poetry -- 21st century.
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World politics -- Poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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Australian poetry. (OCoLC)fst00821490
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World politics. (OCoLC)fst01181381
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Maiden, Jennifer, 1949- Liquid nitrogen. Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo Publishing Company, 2012 9781920882990 (DLC) 2012517205 (OCoLC)828192302 |
| ISBN |
9781922146472 (electronic bk.) |
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1922146471 (electronic bk.) |
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