Hemingway In Spain: Words and Images - Softcover

Reiter, David P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 142709831X ISBN 13: 9781427098313

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems was shortlisted for the 1998 Adelaide Festival Awards.

About this title

About the Author

Dr David P Reiter (pictured here with his son Alexander) is a multi-award winning author and publisher living in Brisbane. He has written 20 fiction, poetry and children's titles, as well as scripts and multimedia. His previous children's books are Real Guns and The Greenhouse Effect. He's won the Queensland Premier s Award and been shortlisted for the Steele Rudd and Adelaide Festival Awards. He s presented his work to audiences in Australia and overseas and received several grants from the Australia Council and Arts Queensland.

Review

Articulate and endlessly curious, David Reiter sets no bounds to his taste for the world's many places, people, and happenings. These poems criss-cross Spain as well as the early Hemingway's life and texts, to create a colourful simulacrum of its invincible, fecund life and history. --Judith Rodriguez, Deakin University

Reiter's book bring[s] a panorama of lost worlds to the reader from the Kremlin, to Flinder's Breaksea Island, from Norfolk Island markets... to Idaho. They stitch you into a tapestry blending a rather fine weave, with loose threads left hanging just to trip you up if you become complacent. 'Art does not insist. You must let the fragments/find voice and not worry so much about the gaps.' --Bev Braune, Australian Book Review

What Reiter has done is more imaginative and more genuinely creative and ground-breaking because he has turned Spain not into a land of monuments that the poet reacts to and makes poems from but into a land of voices. Hemingway acts as a kind of guide but the voice is as likely to be that of a character from one of his novels as it is to be that of the writer. And Columbus, Charles the Fifth, Clint Eastwood, Miro, Picasso and a host of others get to speak as well. All of the themes of this 'voco-drama' interrelate because, as one poem says: 'the centuries / act in circles more often than straight lines'. --Martin Duwell, University of Queensland

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 142709831X
• ISBN 13: 9781427098313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168