Do Not Lament (Song of the Axe)
Artist creator: Monica Oppen
Categories: Bookwork / Intaglio Print Books, Offset Books, Printmakers' Books, Small Press Books
Reference no.:L/Opp.M/18.00/OOS Place/Shelf:1BR
| Book title: | Do Not Lament (Song of the Axe) |
| Published by: | Ant Press |
| Year made: | 2018 |
| Place made: | Australia |
| Original: | Yes |
| Dimensions: | 455 x 330 |
| Binder: | bound by M Oppen |
| Physical description: | drum leaf binding in clam shell box |
| Medium: | poems, illustrations |
| Further information: | |
| "Reading ‘The Road to Botany Bay’ by Paul Carter I came across an extract from a poem, ‘The Song of the Axe’ by Marie Pitt. I sought out the full poem and was impressed by the joy Pitt expressed in chopping down trees and clearing the land! A key concept in the poem is the link between culture and cultivation– clearing awakens the slumbering land, which then can be cultivated and from the timber cities can be built. Implied is with the cities comes culture.
Since 1925, when the poem was published in Melbourne, extreme land clearing has been recognised by ecologists as an environmental disaster. Yet broad scale clearing continues." Monica Oppen This copy is out of sequence and lacks the fold out. |
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| Artist creator: | Monica Oppen () |
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