Wings of Angels

A Memoir of Madness

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Sandy Jeffs' poetry has a stark dignity, capable of conveying "shudders of intense fear". Yet in the midst of her rigours, she can access a voice both wild and funny. Sandy Jeffs' leavening sense of humour peoples her darkness with the sirens of the supermarket, a tinsel paradise and high-tech technicolour Armageddon. After all, God is only a word and angels, although mad, sing the wanderer into paradise.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-11-10
Mått:132 x 200 x 10 mm
Vikt:140 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:120
Förlag:Spinifex Press
ISBN:9781876756512

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Sandy Jeffs is a Melbourne poet who has published five volumes of poetry and a memoir. Her first book Poems from the Madhouse was awarded second place in the FAW Anne Elder poetry prize 1994. Her memoir Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness was shortlisted for the 2010 Age Book of the Year, named SANE Book of the Year 2010 and was commended in the 2010 Human Rights Awards. She has lived with schizophrenia and all its moods since 1976. Sandy has been a public loony for many years presenting as a human face for this often misunderstood condition. She lives with her friends and animals in a place where it's Christmas every day.

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"A series of poems with a theatrical quality that is haunting in its exposure of the ritualistic violence perpetrated in the family home... These poems emerge like flowers on top of boiling water." Jeltje, "Five Bells, The Magazine of the Poets Union," on "Blood Relations"