Bøger af Mercedes Webb-Pullman

LOOKING FOR KEROUAC is a mélange of creative non-fiction, prose and poetry, travelogue and memoir, from acclaimed New Zealand poet & author Mercedes Webb-Pullman. Layering flashbacks from her American honeymoon 30 years ago with journeys by train in search of remnants of the world of Kerouac and Co. in their cross-hatching travels over their country, "LOOKING FOR KEROUAC is certainly a piece of writing that Kerouac or any other stream-of-consciousness guru would be proud of. Allow the whole thing to hypnotize and bliss you out." (Robert Clark Young, CNF Editor, Connotation Press).

In AFTER THE DANSE, we discover the poetry and prose of Mercedes Webb-Pullman, whose feminine sensibilities and mytho-poetic lyricism dance like the flames of a candle. It is her voice - irreverent, direct, musical - singing with a playfully sinister passion, illuminating the dark chambers of the human heart. Webb-Pullman masterfully observes the commedia within the tragic, the mythic within the heartbreak. She draws readers in gently, via querulous Greek gods and demigods, before proceeding to the lives of survivors of the 20th Century's furies, a pirouette into the blood and marrow of ruthless authenticity.AFTER THE DANSE is a must for anyone with an interest in poetry that both cuts like a knife and caresses with the gentlest of touches, a haunting reliquary that only gains momentum the further you read.

Bravo Charlie Foxtrot was the registration of the last Tiger Moth my father owned, and the last plane he crashed. I returned to New Zealand after almost 40 years away, to help care for my mother in her last years. As her memory was lost, I remembered. A time of family, and place.

Tasseography is a divination or fortune-telling method that interrogates patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments. It derives from the French word tasse, which in turn derives from the cognate Arabic word tassa, and the Greek suffix -graph.Divination attempts to gain insight through intuitive interpretation.This is book collects interpretations of symbols I've heard and read about or seen used by readers, including my mother.You, as a reader, will develop your own vocabulary of the leaves. This is just a suggested starting-place.

A collection of poems published online or in print between 2008 and 2014.

Devotees of Mercedes' kaleidoscopic oeuvre will greet this new gathering as an event; lovers of world poetry new to her work will delight in the layers of concentric etymology and passion that infuse Mercedes' prose. In ONO, indigenous Maori speech is illuminated through the subconscious of the observer, the meditations of the traveller, and the sensuality of the wanderer. Count ONO as a radiant addition to any poetry lover's bookshelf.

In 60 pages of free verse and well-executed forms, the author presents the lives of 40 different women: historical, fictional, mythical, and domestic.

poems published around the world by New Zealand author Mercedes Webb-Pullman 2015/16

"e;Reading 'Track Tales' is like key-holing a personal diary that gives the human drum on the racing industry in Australia during the early 1980s. The poems perversely honour the men, women, horses and dogs that were the industry at the time ... the poems jostle at the starting gate. Suddenly they're off and running! A totally absorbing read."e;~ Martin Christmas, author of 'Immediate Reflections'