What is Your Yardstick, Your Benchmark? single work   poetry   "What is your yardstick, your benchmark? I will no longer bend and reshape myself,"
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 What is Your Yardstick, Your Benchmark?
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    y separately published work icon Skin Painting Elizabeth Hodgson , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1427342 2007 selected work poetry

    'My story cannot be painted onto a canvas - it is skin painting.

    Brave, haunting and evocative, this powerful volume is poetry as memoir. From her early experiences in an institution and the effect of this on her family to the illustration of her strength as an adult, Elizabeth Hodgson helps make a slice of Aboriginal experience accessible and resonant. Skin Painting explores themes of art, identity, sexuality and loneliness. It is both universal and intimated, honest and important.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008
    pg. 56
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