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The Gas Leak.
This thoughtful, disturbing, and darkly funny new collection explores the theme of uneasy domestic life in poems arranged in three sequences and narrated by a gas fitter, his wife, and their teenage daughter. Without explicit storytelling, the secrets and peculiarities of each character are revealed...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Auckland University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; The gas-fitter's marriage; Silence, it means something; So long as they confine themselves to this chore; Sides of the family; A vacuum must have slipped into her then; A master key is easy to procure; Looking to the fittings; Extenuating circumstances; Indeed he can quite freely step inside; Looking at him as if he were a ghost; This sterile promontory; Nothing suggests adulterous proceedings; What? Gas in the tank, I suspect; A family Christmas; Predicates of appreciation; The gas-fitter's daughter.
- The gas-fitter's daughter wakes upThe gas-fitter's daughter on stage; The gas-fitter's daughter at school; The gas-fitter's daughter leaves the cinema; The gas-fitter's daughter's ghost; The gas-fitter's daughter doesn't ask; The maths lesson solves nothing; While life is just preparing things off-scene; The gas-fitter's daughter at least has browner hair; The gas-fitter's daughter goes out; The gas-fitter's daughter explains the urgency:; The gas-fitter's daughter uses fake ID; The gas-fitter's daughter's curfew; The gas-fitter's daughter shows Shane; Not talking.
- The gas-fitter's daughter's recurring solutionThe gas-fitter's wife; Indeed I can quite freely step inside; A master key is easy to procure; The ceiling becomes a marble slab; Nothing suggests adulterous proceedings; 'You know the interest that I take in you.'; As I stand there biting my nails; Life seems to be enclosed in steel and nickel; Looking at me as if I were a ghost; It seems that this time I have been mistaken; I spot the trap here, look again to the fittings; An explanatory wave of the hand; At last the minor leak is traced and sealed; I need not make up stories any more.
- 'Indeed I can quite freely step inside.' (God)Notes; Copyright.