Mezzaluna gathers work from Michele Leggott's nine books of poetry.
As reviewer David Eggleton writes: Leggott shows us that the ordinary is full of marvels which .
stitched, flow together into sequences and episodes that in turn form an ongoing serial, or bricolage: a single poem, then, rejecting exactness, literalism, naturalism in favor of resonance, currents, patterns of ebb and flow.
In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush textured soundscapes.
Her poetry covers a wide range of topics rich in details of her New Zealand life, full of history and family, lights and mirrors, the real and the surreal.
She focuses on appearance and disappearance as modes of memory, familial until we lose sight of that horizon line and must settle instead for a series of intersecting arcs.
Leggott writes with tenderness and courage about the paradoxes of losing her sight and remaking the world in words.
on white you fallinto lineher voice fillsthe groundpotato cuts the sundries paints the deck printsshapes shadows of oranges green 'cyan and magenta' sail your picnicsea into the eye land crimson lemons hand methe moonrisen rode rose ridewhite out to see About the Author Michele Leggott was the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007-2009 and received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013.
Her collections include Vanishing Points (2017), Heartland (2014) and Mirabile Dictu (2009), from Auckland University Press.
She coordinates the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) with colleagues at the University of Auckland, and has co-edited Alan Brunton's selected poems, Beyond the Ohlala Mountains (Titus Books 2013) with Martin Edmond.
In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
| Writes | Leggott shows us that the ordinary is full of marvels which stitched flow together into sequences and episodes that in turn form an ongoing serial or bricolagea single poem then rejecting exactness literalism naturalism in favor of resonance currents patterns of ebb and flow |
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Wesleyan University Press Mezzaluna: selected poems, paperback/michele leggott
