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  • Author:agent Lee Cataldi http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/cataldi-lee
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 New Poems
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2017 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Joanne Burns , single work essay
'In this selection of poems, Lee Cataldi writes in a spare, lean, direct way, steered by an aesthetic of restraint. She often uses internal spacing and short stanzas to re-enforce her measure. A sense of loss inhabits a number of the poems. Cataldi has worked as a teacher and linguist in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. In ‘the opening of the children’s centre in Balgo’ the language centre seems to have gone' (Introduction)
C'est L'Hommei"you", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
Mourning is Women's Businessi"with a gesture as large as the planet", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
Hereafteri"you should have died much later", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
The Sky Is Falling ini"I drive along in my car", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
On Breaking Thingsi"a clumsy movement of the sleeve sweeps", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
Seventyi"sometimes", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
Michelangelo 27, Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
Michelangelo 107i"my eyes wild for beautiful things", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
Michelangelo 143i"as pieces of my life fall away", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
Mallarme: Sea Changei"the body complains unfortunately and I’ve read all the books", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
Mallarme: Innocent Breathless Beautiful Dayi"what does not fly", Lee Cataldi , single work poetry
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