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Sack (Record no. 285)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781447259435
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 821.91
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kinsella, John
9 (RLIN) 359603
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Sack
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Main Market ed
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pan Macmillan;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 06 Nov 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 128 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In John Kinsella's new collection, 'Sack' not only refers not only to the shocking title poem, where a tied, writhing sack is seen flung from a car into gully - but also to the sacking and exploitation of the landscape and those who labour on it. Kinsella draws vividly on 'childhood memories' - but reveals them for the hard truths they are, by subtracting the cushioning effects of nostalgia. Kinsella shows how childhood prefigures our adult experience, and how its residues (here, those also take the literal form of asbestos and radiation) influence and shape our futures. Elsewhere, Kinsella resurrects an old form to do new work: the 'penillion' is an old Welsh stanza whose concision and insistent musicality provide the ideal means to encapsulate and concentrate Kinsella's vision of the land, animal life, and our sometimes fraught relationship with both. These short poems reveal astonishing and unsuspected correlations between music and form, place and language - and will come as a delightful surprise to those who know Kinsella primarily as a freewheeling long-form poet. But throughout Sack, the articulate urgency of Kinsella's lyric builds to nothing so much as a call to action, and underlines John Kinsella's reputation as one of the greatest Australian poets of the last fifty years.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Poetry by individual poets
9 (RLIN) 359604
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi In Store 12/07/2016 2 821.91 PKLC005051 06/02/2020 12/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17   29/01/2020
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Poetry and Drama 30/04/2016   821.91 PKLC008603 30/04/2016 30/04/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale