Born Sacred
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As American critic Tom Disch quipped of many vintage poets: 'friends and pets die, the garden takes on a new significance.' There are poems in this collection about Dutch Masters, the remembered voice of a deceased soprano, a waterfall, ancient Chinese artefacts, victims of the World Wars, kites and flowers; but each piece is sensitively imbued not only with the poet's awareness of impending death but also with the incorrigible fragility of life. While Dallas is at home in a number of different modes, her high regard for literary tradition as a form of spiritual realism makes her eminently readable as a disciplined watcher of the seasons.
Ruth Dallas first published her poems in 1946. She is the author of many volumes and also a noted children's fiction writer. She has received many awards, including the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1977, and is much anthologised.
- ISBN-13
- 9781877372308
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Imprint
- Otago University Press (NZ)
- Publication date
- 1 January 2005
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 64
- Dimensions
- 215 x 152 mm
- Language
- English
