Skin Painting
eBook - PDF

Skin Painting

  1. 74 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Skin Painting

About this book

Brave, haunting, and evocative, this powerful volume presents its poetry in the form of a memoir. From the poet's early experiences in an institution and the effect of this on her family to the illustration of her strength and independence as an adult, this biographical collection helps make the Aboriginal experience accessible and resonant. Exploring themes of art, identity, sexuality, and loneliness, this compendium is both universal and intimate.

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Information

Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780702250644
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. I am sitting in an exhibition room; alone
  6. Somewhere beyond this room is the sound of children
  7. At school I spent my time staring out of the window
  8. Two girls linger by a triptych
  9. The room is quiet again
  10. This is my memory of my life
  11. Bindawalla, binda, bindi, bindii
  12. Little two-year-old in yellow plastic sandals
  13. Mr Cage, can you imagine
  14. I am in a room; it is day but the room is dark
  15. Sometimes the man and his wife go away
  16. These people give me a religion I do not want
  17. They change my name, I am no longer Elizabeth
  18. Little four-year-old with bells on her slippers
  19. Every weekday – porridge
  20. When I don’t eat my porridge
  21. Drip by precious drip, my life re-begins
  22. I have a toy stroller, filled with dolls
  23. One day my guardian comes to visit
  24. I know many places well – some I can still smell
  25. This place that I know well
  26. My best friend Vicky and I were invited to the minister’s place for tea
  27. Some memory paintings are suitable for public display
  28. Before Lutanda my father taught us about bush-tucker
  29. Sometimes I’d buff my shoes until I was mesmerised
  30. My father gave me a camera
  31. The adults at Lutanda ran our little lives
  32. My mother knitted herself a yellow jumper
  33. The tree-lined street where my guardian’s lover lived
  34. Sometimes we would knock and knock but the door stayed shut
  35. Father gained custody of me and my siblings
  36. Now I am fifteen, I am living with my father
  37. My father is waltzing me around the lounge room
  38. At seventeen I moved into the anonymity and solitude of Sydney
  39. Revered in her church community, the step-grandmother
  40. Have you ever stood on the edge of your country and wondered where you belong
  41. I am twenty, homeless and restless
  42. Husband number one tells me
  43. Husband number one
  44. My culture and my place were things I did not know how to reach.
  45. I have an obsession with polished boots
  46. Once, I became a Christian
  47. There is so much I have lost, there are things I’ve never known about my people
  48. When you walk this land do you notice the tracks of my people?
  49. I am a Wiradjuri woman
  50. I’ve heard it said I’m now at the invisibility age
  51. What is your yardstick, your benchmark?
  52. I am sitting in an exhibition room in an art gallery
  53. These words are my phoenix
  54. I will not deliberately hurt you
  55. Acknowledgments
  56. About the David Unaipon Award
  57. Copyright