The Hazards
Author(s): Sarah Holland-Batt
Spanning poems written in the United States, Central America, Europe, and Australia, The Hazards is a dazzling and inventive collection. Opening with a vision of a leveret's agonizing death by myxomatosis and closing with a lover disappearing into dangerous waters, Holland-Batt reflects a predatory world rife with hazards, both real and imagined. Her cosmopolitan poems careen through diverse geographical territory--from haunted postcolonial landscapes in Australia to brutal animal hierarchies in the cloud forests of Nicaragua, the still Danish interiors of Hammershøi and the serial killer stalking Long Island Sound--and engage everywhere with questions of violence and loss, erasure, and extinction. Charged with Holland-Batt's mercurial imagination and swift lyricism, this unsettling and darkly intelligent collection inhabits an uncertain world with a questioning eye and clear mind, unafraid to veer "straight into turbulence."
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General Fields
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- : University of Queensland Press
- : University of Queensland Press
- : 0.119
- : 01 May 2015
- : 199mm X 131mm X 8mm
- : 01 May 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sarah Holland-Batt
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : A821.4
- : 112
- : DCF
- : black & white illustrations