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The bone house : essays / Beverley Farmer.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
A824.3 FAR	Adult Non Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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ISBN	1920882065
Name	Farmer, Beverley, 1941-
Title	The bone house : essays / Beverley Farmer.
Published	Artarmon, N.S.W. : Giramondo, 2005.
Description	328 p. : ill.
Notes	Bibliography: p. 322-328.
Summary	The three long essays that make up "The bone house" are an extended meditation on the life of the body and the life of the mind, each based on a single theme and woven out of the same few elemental symbols of earth, and water, fire and blood, light and darkness. What does art know that we do not? How does the image have such a hold on us all? Alongside the urge to grasp the world, to abstract and to delve, is the urge to make our visions known, somehow to fix the moment in time in its fullness of meaning. In the essays, this hoard of moments takes the form of a mosaic, composed of myth, poetry and fable, of relics of the past, of explorations and illuminations and surface impressions. Set out like a commonplace book, they can be read in any sequence, or savoured for their detail.
Subjects	Australian essays -- 21st century
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australian essays -- 21st century . Authors: Farmer, Beverley, 1941- .