Fish Stories - Cresswell, Mary Meyerhoff
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Mary Cresswell is at her imaginative best in this new collection, built from her experiments with the ghazal, a traditional form, which she first met via the work of Agha Shahid Ali and Mimi Khalvati. The poems are presented as an intellectual challenge to students of the ghazal and glosa forms, encouraging them to develop their own craft. At the same time, Cresswell's poetry is widely accessible and appealing: using rhyme and varying poetic structures, inspired by a range of topics, but especially by nature and ecology, she combines humor with serious comment to engage and connect with her reader.…mehr

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Mary Cresswell is at her imaginative best in this new collection, built from her experiments with the ghazal, a traditional form, which she first met via the work of Agha Shahid Ali and Mimi Khalvati. The poems are presented as an intellectual challenge to students of the ghazal and glosa forms, encouraging them to develop their own craft. At the same time, Cresswell's poetry is widely accessible and appealing: using rhyme and varying poetic structures, inspired by a range of topics, but especially by nature and ecology, she combines humor with serious comment to engage and connect with her reader.
Autorenporträt
Mary Cresswell came to New Zealand from Los Angeles in 1970. She began writing poetry while winding down a full-time career as a freelance technical editor. She has produced publications in mathematics, aeronautical engineering, earth sciences, social sciences, and was sole-charge editor of the New Zealand Royal Society's journal and conference publications for ten years. Her main interests are in New Zealand natural history, particularly marine biology and conservation. Earlier poetry books are Millionaire's Shortbread, co-authored with Mary-Jane Duffy, Mary Macpherson and Kerry Hines; a book of light verse, Nearest & Dearest, and Trace Fossils.