Photographs Jane Dove Juneau
South Pacific Light Press
A gorgeous large format paperback book filled with the appealing recent verse of Elizabeth Smither complemented perfectly with the beautiful photographs especially taken for each poem by Jane Dove Juneau.As the cover blurb says "photography and poetry are forms rich in imagery" and they work wonderfully well together in The Sea Question.
With a thoughtful foreword by writer David Hill and interesting front notes by both poet and photographer this is a book I am glad to own.
Red shoes
Where the heel strap and the arch strap
join there will be a blister at first
I know when I get them home
out of their box and the wrapping paper.
They are the colour of red lacquer.
The colour of a beautiful chest
fastened with mock gold fatenings
and the maker's name is in gold lettering.
I shall wear them with everything
red complements which is everything
I own: those that fail shall be discarded
into bags for the Salvation Army.
With red shoes who can doubt
the heart has a means of action
as feeling moves forward to accomplishment
as I stretch out my shod feet on the white sofa.
Footnote:
The book is being distributed to the book trade in New Zealand by Paul Greenberg. It is being officially launched at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth next Tuesday, 19 October.
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