Emma Smith: Drawings from Celanie (2012)

[cover design: Ellen Portch / Cover image: Emma Smith]


Celanie:
Poems & Drawings after Paul Celan


by Jack Ross & Emma Smith

Afterword by Bronwyn Lloyd

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Drawings

by Emma Smith


Portfolio 1:

[a]
I did not see my tree again

[b]
gallowglasses

[c]
the almond tree

[d]
Green Light

[e]
must hang around that head

[f]
Youyou teachyou teachyour hands

[g]
on the news-red bollard

[h]
much hissed at Justice

[i]
grey-greenfreed

[j]
fans your tongue with light


Portfolio 2:

[k]
black backed gull

[l]
Four lines, here, tonight on the lime

[m]
Arrow sister the barn swallow’s

[n]
You have the right to one tree

[o]
Due to the limits of light

[p]
only sharp light can help

[q]
except his birthmark-mottled secret-stained skin

[r]
ArrivalSurvivala beetle spots you

[s]
You gainheight

[t]
Along the bank

© Images: Emma Smith (2012)

On Exhibition in the Waiting Room Gallery
(Mairangi Bay, 25/11/12)

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