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Cataractae single work   poetry   "The bookcase is titling, the books are sliding"
  • Author:agent Alex Skovron http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/skovron-alex
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Cataractae
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Notes

  • Author's note: According to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, however, the story that Alkan died under a collapsed bookcase 'has no basis in truth'. (Infinite City, p. 103)

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    y separately published work icon Infinite City : 100 Sonnetinas Alex Skovron , Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 1999 Z861995 1999 selected work poetry A collection of 100 poems in a ten line form for which Alex Skovron has coined the name "sonnetina". The poems reflect upon time and destiny, on culture, music and art, on the sacred and the mundane. They investigate terrains both social and inner, probing our daily confrontations with the self. (Back cover) Wollongong : Five Islands Press , 1999 pg. 74
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