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Clung
Sonja Yelich
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Clung
Sonja Yelich
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Vivid sketches full of unexpected detail communicate bizarre, humorous, and magical cultural clashes in this first collection from a rising poet who draws from her personal experiences as the child of an immigrant. A woman stranded at home with small children listens to the radio for company in wry, colorful poems about domestic life. Summers in seaside cottages, the dramas of suburban life, and the memories of childhood are among the scenarios explored with a freshness and lack of pretension from this gifted poet.
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The story of drowning
for flounder came to my radio every hour
for flounder came to my radio every hour
Clung
It was a balloon day.
& at sea clung the girl
to the looseness of water.
*
From the rescue helicopter
the ocean was a drop.
*
The story of drowning
for flounder came to my radio
every hour.
1YA
you get the radio on
& hear the bird of the day
which sounds like any other
whistle being fed into the 9
oâclock beeps with news
*
you know wellington is there somewhere
forming some sort of front.
*
there is a red light on the transistor
you got from the dick smith store
*
you are connected
by a tuner
*
from the volume you will come to know
all those people going about
their steps up up
into their warm lives
to stay put from the wind
which is for sure a hurtler.
*
you will come to believe
that wellington lies inside a radio
& bleak is on a m
*
there will be much talk about
who the weather is heading for
& how wellington is forgot
of the sun.
*
& you will remember vicâs uncle pat
of petone
& the smell of his hands
in the wet flatette
& how his loose phlegm cough
broke free of itself
on the carpet by your feet
*
you can turn wellington
off with your thumb.
*
how to fix a radio
your radio is your talking
world & your baby is your
world crawling into walls.
holding your radio
your baby heads for
the surface hardest to
fall
the pasifika wall
wh...
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APA 6 Citation
Yelich, S. (2013). Clung (1st ed.). Auckland University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1465245/clung-pdf (Original work published 2013)
Chicago Citation
Yelich, Sonja. (2013) 2013. Clung. 1st ed. Auckland University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/1465245/clung-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Yelich, S. (2013) Clung. 1st edn. Auckland University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1465245/clung-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Yelich, Sonja. Clung. 1st ed. Auckland University Press, 2013. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.