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ISBN
921870-31-0
6 x 9
106 pp, $10.95
Poetry
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Burning Stone
By Zoë Landale
In her third book, Zoë Landale explores the darkened
rooms of family myth and history. Focussing on family members from the past
— matrons,
suicides and brilliant eccentrics — she investigates their lives and the shadowy but
potent power they exert over the present. Discovering at first only bitterness and anger,
Landale pushes further to see these ghostly figures in the light of their own aspirations.
Especially powerful is the description of the earlier women of Landale's family
— strong
yet struggling to find their own voices. Burning Stone enacts a journey into the
light, the generation of understanding and forgiveness within the family."Landale's language burns away the mists of the past,
preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts."
— John Newlove |
