Landfall 210: The Mouths Of Beasts - Spring 2005 by Nick Ashcroft

In "Landfall 210", language humbly falls into line as just another job-lot of animal noises. Poets speak out of the mouths of beasts from Fiona Farrell's eel, through all the monkeys and borzoi and owls of Russia to an MP poet per Richard Reeve. Painter Kushana Bush lays out a domestic bestiary, as John Dolan explains that only in the movie The Big Lebowski has the true squawking, grunting, yauping, verbiage and profanity of human speech been captured for what it is. Guest editor Nick Ascroft goes to the frontlines, interviewing world-renowned linguist John Taylor: is sign language the only recourse?

Publisher:	Otago University Press
Year:	2005
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781877276897
Condition:	Good

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SKU: 1578121
Location: NZ Short Stories