Pirate Rain takes Jennifer Maiden's concern with political power and personal accountability into new territory, as her characters Clare Collins and George Jeffreys wake to nightmarish scenarios in New Orleans, Rio, Beirut, Paris or Somalia, and Hillary Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt have intimate conversations on the campaign trail leading to the Obama presidency about the relationship between the public and the personal worlds. The most politically concerned poet in contemporary Australian writing, Maiden works new territory in these these sequences - from the global recession and the US presidential campaign to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the continuing wars on terrorism and drugs - with her characteristic dexterity, humour and eye for the absurd.
By:
Jennifer Maiden Imprint: Giramondo Publishing Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 150mm,
ISBN:9781920882594 ISBN 10: 1920882596 Pages: 96 Publication Date:03 May 2010 Audience:
General/trade
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General/trade
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ELT Advanced
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
