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    The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls
    The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls
    The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls
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    The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls

    By Kate Camp

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    Taking a dark turn, this important New Zealand poet explores the legacy of a heretic who was burned at the stake in 1310 for writing a thesis called Simple Annihilated Souls. Answering back, modern souls offer their own lamentations in poems such as "The Tired Atheist" and "Driving on the Bypass."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVictoria University Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2010
    ISBN9780864737540
    The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls
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    Kate Camp

    KATE CAMP was born and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of six collections of poetry and the recipient of all New Zealand’s major literary awards. Camp is also an essayist, a memoirist, and a literary commentator, known for Kate’s Klassics, a nationally syndicated radio program on classic literature that has been running on Radio New Zealand for twenty years. Camp’s work has appeared in many journals at home and internationally, including Landfall and Sport (New Zealand), HEAT (Australia), Brick (Canada), Arc Poetry Magazine (Canada), Akzente (Germany), Qualm (England), and Poetry (U.S.). She works at Te Papa, New Zealand’s national museum.

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