Crete Dorothy Porter 1996

Dustjacket synopsis:
"From the award-winning creator of the international bestseller The Monkey's Mask ('Banjo' winner and Age Book of the Year) comes an extraordinary work of the imagination.

"Crete is a heady mix of dark humor, archaeology, breathtaking eroticism, risk-taking and effortless economy. It is a book by a writer at the peak of her highly original powers."

Contents:

CRETE
Part One - The Trip
   Crete
   Linear A
   The night before Knossos
   Or else
   My hairy sprog
   Motherhood
   Gorgeous breasts
   Changed
   Gross, green and mad
   Grape dance
   Rot here
   A stinger!
   The honey daimon
Part Two - There
   Exuberance
   Atalntis
   Altars
   Bull-leaping
   Leaving Ariadne behind
   Archaeology
   The body
   Lost civilisation
   Uprooting trees
   The Bride of Death
   Wild honey
   The Dead
   What Death can do
   The wine-dark sea
   Blue monkey flying through an orchard
   Snakes, stones and seeds
   Snake envy
   The Flying leap
   The law of volcanos
   The labyrinth of intimacy
   Triumph of the Will
   The Power and the Glory
   Catastrophe
   Vanished
   Direst need
   The beautiful friend
   Liberties
   Steering your seahorse
THIS WEIRD SOLIDARITY
   Telephone
   Cherdyn
   Moscow
   Yelaburga
MISSOLONGHI
BONE-BURNING TUNES
   Why I Love Your Body
   Mountains Window Edge
   The Wailing Wall
   For Beth in Gondawanaland
   'The Stars are Shining Brightly'
   Stain
   The Water
   Hot Date
   Music
   The Emerald Leopard
   Green Platypus Under a Toorak Palm
   Starfish
   Good Friday
   The Flashing Mountain
   Wives
CIGARETTES
SUMMER 92
   As cunning as serpents
   My at-last lover
   Mud-crabs
   Perfume and drowse
   Lashed to the mast
   Drought sonnet
   Stupid as a poet

From the Hyland House paperback edition, 1996.

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