The Fires - Couverture souple

McAuliffe, M F

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888965443

Editeur : Gobq LLC, 2024

Synopsis

The Fires is about two fires: the burning city of Troy and the almost constantly burning megafire of the present. It's also about the beauty and fragility of the world we live in, human voices and concerns, the passing of time. It's a sequence that becomes a mosaic.

One layer down from the surface landscape, The Fires is also about the landscape of South Australia, the hills and beaches surrounding Adelaide, and its marginal, drought-prone mid-north plains. "Odysseus" is an implicit continuation and argument with writers Flexmore Hudson and Kenneth Slessor.

But after all the tragedy, cruelty, politics, love and arguments with its ancestors, The Fires is about being human in a world in which non-human beings, larger gods and forces, and beauty and utter frailty also live.

Plus: auto-fiction, "Hollywood, Guido Orlando, the Pope and the Mother" - which shows the connections and disjunctions between Old Hollywood (in the person of fixer and PR man Guido Orlando) and a former Pope, and the effects on a mother and daughter on the far side of the world. It is the story of a marriage, disjunction and alliance within a family, of what is nurtured and what is not, and of the power of politics and finance to reach into the lives of everyone.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

M. F. McAuliffe was born and educated in South Australia and Victoria, has an Honours degree in English from Flinders University and a Graduate Diploma of Art from Swinburne College of Technology. She has worked as an English instructor in high schools and Technical Colleges in South Australia and Victoria, and in film and print libraries in Melbourne, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.Her fiction and poems have appeared in The Clarion Awards, Overland, Australian Short Stories, Prairie Schooner, Poezija (Zagreb), Thraca (Athens), The Writing Disorder, Unlikely Stories Mark V, and other print and online venues.In May 2000, her long poem "Orpheus" the libretto for the La Mama (Melbourne) production "Orpheus, an Australian Tragedy" at the Courthouse Theatre, Carlton. (Music by Melbourne composer Dindy Vaughan.) Her poem "Crucifix I" appeared in the Yoko Ono installation "Arising" in the Reykjavik Art Museum, 2016-2017. She is co-author of the poetry collection Fighting Monsters (with Judith Steele) and the limited edition artist's book, Golems Waiting Redux (with Portland, Oregon artist and sculptor Daniel Duford). She is author of The Crucifixes and Other Friday Poems, 25 Poems on the Death of Ursula K. Le Guin, the novella Seattle and the story cycle I'm Afraid of Americans.A long-time resident of Portland, Oregon, she is co-founder and co-editor of the Portland-based, completely multilingual journal Gobshite Quarterly (2002- ). In 2008 she co-founded its offshoot press, Reprobate/GobQ Books, where she edits and co-edits collections of poetry and fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gobq LLC
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888965443
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible