y separately published work icon Tongues and Pinnacles selected work   poetry  
  • Author:agent Stefanie Bennett http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/bennett-stefanie
Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 Tongues and Pinnacles
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Notes

  • Dedication: I dedicate this latest work to: The Masters; Mistresses Ancient and Now.
  • Author's note: Tongues & Pinnacles is in 2 parts. In the 1st part I've attempted to give voice, mostly, to 'objects'. The 2nd part is the 'me' speaking.... Magnetic Isl. Qld. September, 1976.
  • Epigraph for Part One, 'Diction of Suns': Whoever you are holding me now in hand, / Without one thing all will be useless, / I give you fair warning before you attempt me further, / I am not what you supposed, but far different. Walt Whitman.
  • For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book, / Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it, / Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me, / Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious, / Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more, / For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at; / Therefore release me and depart on your way. Walt Whitman.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Townsville, Townsville area, Marlborough - Mackay - Townsville area, Queensland,:Cochon , 1976 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Proverbsi"The Good News floored me. News that the flood", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 10)
Toasti"Caught on the hook of a smile,", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 11)
I Heard a Woman Weepingi"I heard a woman weeping down", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 12)
There Is a Pointi"There's a point. Everyone comes to it.", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 13)
Vorticismi"It is only a mad bull bellowing", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 14)
Lest I Forgeti"Between the crystals", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 15)
Exilei"The beast man-woman", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 16)
I Removed the Oxygeni"I removed the oxygen tent, my safe", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 17)
Guesti"You arrive wearing your fatigue like a uniform.", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 18)
The Green Candle Testifiesi"I've come out of the night, I who am night", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 19)
Toweri"Fetch me a line, one that", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 20)
Transforming the Plasticsi"My daughter's transformed", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 21)
Testamenti"The horizontal's always one up on us.", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 22)
Attitudei"The broken wings of things out of my life:", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 23)
Not Found in Booksi"I melt like the sorrows;", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 24)
Ducei"Carve me up, never, you canines", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 25)
Elegy for the Transcending Angeli"Conversations with corpses never runs smoothly", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 26)
We Who Camei"We who came through the generations", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 27)
Comparisonsi"There's an unshared sadness about", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 28)
The Way of the Horneti"The gardenias will, of course, bloom again this year.", Stefanie Bennett , single work poetry (p. 29)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Tongues, Pinnacles and Just Words Thomas Shapcott , 1977 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 4 June 1977;

— Review of Tongues and Pinnacles Stefanie Bennett , 1976 selected work poetry ; Hags, Rags and Scriptures Laraine Roche , Nancy Phillips , Colleen Burke , 1976 selected work poetry ; Adam Scolds Lyndon Walker , Graham Rowlands , Grahame Pitt , 1976 selected work poetry
Trying to be Profound Frank Kellaway , 1977 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , no. 67 1977; (p. 76-79)

— Review of Friends of My Long Heart's Summer Nigel Jackson , 1977 selected work poetry ; Adam Scolds Lyndon Walker , Graham Rowlands , Grahame Pitt , 1976 selected work poetry ; Hags, Rags and Scriptures Laraine Roche , Nancy Phillips , Colleen Burke , 1976 selected work poetry ; Anchor and Other Poems Nicholas Hasluck , 1976 selected work poetry ; Tones of Survival 1976 anthology poetry ; Seen and Unseen : Concrete Poems Peter Murphy , 1975 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poetry Reader [no.1] 1977 anthology poetry ; Tongues and Pinnacles Stefanie Bennett , 1976 selected work poetry ; The Phantom Boy Barney Roberts , 1976 selected work poetry ; Poems from Murrumbeena R. A. Simpson , 1976 selected work poetry
Tongues, Pinnacles and Just Words Thomas Shapcott , 1977 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 4 June 1977;

— Review of Tongues and Pinnacles Stefanie Bennett , 1976 selected work poetry ; Hags, Rags and Scriptures Laraine Roche , Nancy Phillips , Colleen Burke , 1976 selected work poetry ; Adam Scolds Lyndon Walker , Graham Rowlands , Grahame Pitt , 1976 selected work poetry
Trying to be Profound Frank Kellaway , 1977 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , no. 67 1977; (p. 76-79)

— Review of Friends of My Long Heart's Summer Nigel Jackson , 1977 selected work poetry ; Adam Scolds Lyndon Walker , Graham Rowlands , Grahame Pitt , 1976 selected work poetry ; Hags, Rags and Scriptures Laraine Roche , Nancy Phillips , Colleen Burke , 1976 selected work poetry ; Anchor and Other Poems Nicholas Hasluck , 1976 selected work poetry ; Tones of Survival 1976 anthology poetry ; Seen and Unseen : Concrete Poems Peter Murphy , 1975 selected work poetry ; Friendly Street Poetry Reader [no.1] 1977 anthology poetry ; Tongues and Pinnacles Stefanie Bennett , 1976 selected work poetry ; The Phantom Boy Barney Roberts , 1976 selected work poetry ; Poems from Murrumbeena R. A. Simpson , 1976 selected work poetry
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