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Face to the Sky, Paperback / softback Book

Face to the Sky Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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In her latest collection, Michele Leggott speaks to the art and writings of nineteenth-century New Zealand painter Emily Cumming Harris.

Face to the Sky tells stories of love and loss from two woman in the shadow the same mountain, more than a century apart. ‘Voices sing from the archive: a choir of breakers on a North Taranaki beach.

Two women born more than a hundred years apart tell stories of love and loss in the shadow of the mountain that is always there.

One of them becomes a painter of botanically accurate native flora, and writes all her life.

The other, now without sight, lives in a world of sounds caught into expanding webs of memory.

She listens for the other, tracing the delicate shapes of what she cannot see, taking her cue from the words of others.

She listens and travels, picking up connections over time and place.

Mothers and fathers come and go, adding their voices to the tumult on the beach, the shadow of the mountain, the hills above Nelson where the first woman comes to rest.

The second, living between two small volcanos in a northern city, waits for a miracle that might cure the lymphoma that has been tracking her days.

Through it all, the familiar phrases of the weather forecast sound their ever-hopeful, ever-changing predictions.’— Michele Leggott

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