Hughes, Frieda Wooroloo: Poems ISBN 13: 9780060930028

Wooroloo: Poems - Softcover

9780060930028: Wooroloo: Poems
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 

Welcome to the meticulously observed world of Frieda Hughes. It is a world of tangible materiality constantly on the brink of change, a world populated with foxes and fire, fathers and lovers, mothers and birdmen--a world that is ultimately combustible, fragile, fearsome, and elegiacally beautiful. Hughes maps the landscape, both within and without, in language possessed of an almost painterly sensitivity and a sublime mastery of craft. The self she depicts is one who is tested by loss, danger, betrayal, and abandonment, yet one who is transformed through experience into a world beyond nihilism and despair a place that makes possible truth, strength of character, and the redemptive power of love.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
What to make of a poem called "Dead Cow" that begins: "Balloon-cow at roadside/Offers up her odour/To the flies that skate/The currents of her openings"? This collection of poems by Frieda Hughes contains many poems about animals and viscera. In addition to cows, there are sheep, foxes, spiders, birds, ferrets, fish, giraffes--even a walrus; there are also poems about hysterectomies and cesareans, unhappy marriages and, underlying them all, references both stylistically and thematically to Hughes's famously unhappy parents, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her poems borrow her father's images and her mother's preoccupations--Plath's difficult relationship with her mother, for example, is passed on to the next generation in "Granny": "You loved me not, just saw/A copy of the face/You gave birth to/Wanted to catch it without warning/Not like last time/When it slipped away for burial. Defied you." Where these poems are strongest is in Hughes's powerful use of visual imagery--not surprising, since she is an award-winning painter. A line such as "She is sticks of seen-through blue/And pale yellows of skin" is evocative, indeed. Taken on its own merits, Wooroloo is problematic poetry; read as a codicil to Hughes's parents' work, it makes for an intriguing family artifact.
About the Author:

Born in London in 1960, Frieda Hughes is a painter and poet. She has also written children’s books, and was The Times (London) poetry columnist from 2006 to 2008. Frieda’s first collection of poetry, Wooroloo, was named after the hamlet in western Australia where she lived during the 1990s. Other collections followed: Stonepicker; Waxworks; Forty-five, a collection of autobiographical poems based on her life to the age of forty-five; The Book of Mirrors; and Alternative Values. In this last book, Frieda used the subject of her poems to inform the accompanying abstract images—painted in oils on canvas—combining the two driving forces in her life. Her poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The London Magazine, The Times (London), and The Spectator (London). Frieda resides in Wales with owls and motorbikes. 

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherHarper Perennial
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0060930020
  • ISBN 13 9780060930028
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages80
  • Rating

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780060192716: Wooroloo

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780060192716
Publisher: Harper, 1998
Hardcover

  • 9781852244965: Wooroloo

    Blooda..., 1999
    Softcover

  • 9783832158972: Wooroloo : Gedichte in zwei Sprachen , englisch - deutsch.

    Dumont, 2002
    Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Hughes, Frieda
Published by Harper Perennial (2024)
ISBN 10: 0060930020 ISBN 13: 9780060930028
New Paperback Quantity: 20
Print on Demand
Seller:
Save With Sam
(North Miami, FL, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Brand New! This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # 0060930020

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 16.17
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Hughes, Frieda
Published by Harper Perennial (1999)
ISBN 10: 0060930020 ISBN 13: 9780060930028
New Soft Cover Quantity: 1
Print on Demand
Seller:
booksXpress
(Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # 9780060930028

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 18.27
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Hughes, Frieda
Published by Harper Perennial (1999)
ISBN 10: 0060930020 ISBN 13: 9780060930028
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Books Unplugged
(Amherst, NY, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition. Seller Inventory # bk0060930020xvz189zvxnew

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 25.12
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Frieda Hughes
Published by HarperCollins (1999)
ISBN 10: 0060930020 ISBN 13: 9780060930028
New PAP Quantity: 15
Print on Demand
Seller:
PBShop.store US
(Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.)

Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # IQ-9780060930028

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 25.15
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Hughes, Frieda
Published by Harper Perennial (1999)
ISBN 10: 0060930020 ISBN 13: 9780060930028
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Book Deals
(Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-0060930020-new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 30.01
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Frieda Hughes
Published by Perennial (1999)
ISBN 10: 0060930020 ISBN 13: 9780060930028
New Paperback Quantity: 2
Seller:
Revaluation Books
(Exeter, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 64 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # x-0060930020

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 17.41
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 12.62
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Hughes, Frieda
Published by Harper Perennial (1999)
ISBN 10: 0060930020 ISBN 13: 9780060930028
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0060930020

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 27.02
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Frieda Hughes
Published by HarperCollins (1999)
ISBN 10: 0060930020 ISBN 13: 9780060930028
New PAP Quantity: 15
Print on Demand
Seller:
PBShop.store UK
(Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom)

Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # IQ-9780060930028

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 24.56
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 31.56
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds