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As Much Gold as an Ass Could Carry
As Much Gold as an Ass Could Carry
By
Vivienne Plumb with illustrations by Glenn Otto
Adam Art Gallery,
Gate 3, Victoria University, Kelburn
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Plumb creates through the written word,
Otto through line; this book combines their two narratives. The image/text
conflation moves between form over meaning, and meaning over form. Otto’s
exuberant gestures interact with Plumb’s luminous humour, as if two
performers are present on the page together. As Much Gold as an Ass Could Carry
showcases Plumb’s poetry, fiction and drama, from a twenty-year literary
career. Within these large, funny, barbed, affecting themes, the power of the
social construct – of what it means to be female – is laid bare. Otto’s
graphic wit ornaments and underwrites Plumb’s written traceries.
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