Splinters
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Small tears on jacket - still structural.
A celebrated collection from one of Australia's most distinguished poets, Splinters presents a rich tapestry of verse that meditates on memory, identity, mortality, and the fragmented nature of human experience. Chris Wallace-Crabbe brings his characteristic wit and intellectual precision to bear on the everyday and the philosophical alike, illustrating how the ordinary world is shot through with deeper meaning and quiet revelation. The poems move with an assured, conversational tone that belies their formal sophistication, drawing on history, art, and personal reflection to construct a vision of life as something perpetually breaking apart and reforming. Splinters confirms Wallace-Crabbe's standing as a master of the lyric form, offering readers a collection that is at once playful and profound, grounded in the Australian landscape yet reaching toward universal truths.
Author: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Rigby
Genre: Poetry
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Small tears on jacket - still structural.
A celebrated collection from one of Australia's most distinguished poets, Splinters presents a rich tapestry of verse that meditates on memory, identity, mortality, and the fragmented nature of human experience. Chris Wallace-Crabbe brings his characteristic wit and intellectual precision to bear on the everyday and the philosophical alike, illustrating how the ordinary world is shot through with deeper meaning and quiet revelation. The poems move with an assured, conversational tone that belies their formal sophistication, drawing on history, art, and personal reflection to construct a vision of life as something perpetually breaking apart and reforming. Splinters confirms Wallace-Crabbe's standing as a master of the lyric form, offering readers a collection that is at once playful and profound, grounded in the Australian landscape yet reaching toward universal truths.