The Lifeguard
Poems 2008–2013| By: | Ian Wedde |
| Publisher: | Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781869407698 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781775581918 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Ian Wedde's latest collection of poems are a complex mix of rhapsody, fear, and humor, and the prose explore the contradictions between life's pool-side surfaces and frightening undertows. Opening with a major new series of poems “The Lifeguard,” it concludes with another long sequence, “Shadow Stands Up,” in which a world of Platonic memory and tidal recurrence is observed from a window-seat in Auckland's conspicuously green-branded Link bus. Bringing together work from the past five years by one of New Zealand's most outstanding contemporary poets, this collection shows a master of the are at his thoughtful and surprising best.