Jet Silver
I love Araluen's lyric voice and the deft shifting between tones and registers, academic to poetic to the cadences of day to day city/country life. This is a slim volume but it's so dense with meaning and shifts that I read it over a week, in small bursts.
A favourite stanza:
It is hard to unlearn a language:
to unspeak the empire,
to teach my voice to rise and fall like landscape,
a topographic intonation
I love Araluen's lyric voice and the deft shifting between tones and registers, academic to poetic to the cadences of day to day city/country life. This is a slim volume but it's so dense with meaning and shifts that I read it over a week, in small bursts.
A favourite stanza:
It is hard to unlearn a language:
to unspeak the empire,
to teach my voice to rise and fall like landscape,
a topographic intonation