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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Ephemeral Waters
Author: MIDDLETON KATE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/09/2013
Imprint: GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING COMP
Price: $24.00
Publishing status: Active
This is a book-length poem, told by an Australian traveller, which follows the once-great Colorado River from its source in the central Rocky Mountains, through the American Southwest & the Sonoran Desert of Mexico, to its historical delta in the Gulf of California. It incorporates fragments drawn from geological surveys, archival documents, films, interviews & personal conversations: the voices woven through it range from John Wesley Powell, the leader of the first party to raft through the Grand Canyon, to movie star John Wayne & contemporary park rangers. The result is a polyphonic poem, both local & global in scope, embodying an Australian preoccupation with water in taking the over-taxed Colorado as a prophetic example of a river system in crisis.
ISBN: 9781922146489
Dimension: 210mm X 150mm