A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems about Sex (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781869404031)

This poetry anthology was conceived as something of a stunt to heighten the visibility of New Zealand writers. All the contributors are New Zealanders, and all of the more than 100 poems address the topic of sex--not love, just sex. The result is a collection that tackles sex from every angle, including the comic in Karl Stead's "The Clodian Songbook," the confessional in Rachel McAlpine's "A Frightened Poem about My Breasts," the metaphysical in James K. Baxter's "On the Death of Her Body," and the just plain horny in Vincent O'Sullivan's "Remembering Westmere."

Author: Stu Bagby
ISBN-10: 1869404033
ISBN-13: 9781869404031
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback