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- Title: Late, Late Curnow: A Mind of Winter (Critical Essay)
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 206 KB
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When Allen Curnow, in the tide poem of his 1986 collection The Loop in Lone Kauri Road, writes 'Concentrate!' the injunction--to writer and reader--sums up a habit of intense scrutiny that poem after poem bears witness to and re-enacts, especially over the last three decades of his extraordinary 70-year literary career. And that process of bringing all one's attention to bear, of boiling down language and perception, produces a 'concentrate,' a rich residue with a highly individual flavour, free of the dilutions of received word and thought. If these senses of 'concentrate' offer a way to appreciate the rigour, clarity and fierce intellectual energy that characterise Curnow's poems, another meaning might point to the poems' chief limitation. 'Concentrate' also means 'to bring to a common centre'. These poems are relentlessly concentric, retrieving the poet's bounty from the world of phenomena and hauling it back to a single site, the 'small room with large windows' occupied by the poet's perceiving self. Is there room at that site for a reader who sees differently? Is there room to consider another angle on the world? Are there, in fact, other points of view, and if so, what would it be like to imagine sharing them? Let's go back to the first stanza of 'The Loop in Lone Kauri Road':
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