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Easy Rider: Frederick Seidel's 'Ooga-Booga and Poems: 1959-2009'

Kate Jennings | Books | February 2010 | Society & Culture

For your consideration: “A naked woman my age is just a total nightmare.” Now there’s a rip-snorting line of poetry if there ever was one. Frederick Seidel, who is not afraid to repeat himself, offers the line not once but three times in Ooga-Booga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 112pp; $24). In my...
Home Truths: Revisiting 'Wake in Fright'

Kate Jennings | July 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Society & Culture

The plot of Wake in Fright is as old as an outcropping west of Menindee. As old as Virgil:The way downward is easy from Avernus.Black Dis’s door stands open night and day.But to retrace your steps to heaven’s air,There is the trouble, there is the toil. Aeneas is warned of the dangers of the...
SlowTV: Kate Jennings, in conversation with Elliot Perlman. Readings

Kate Jennings | Literature | Melbourne | Memoir | Public event | Culture

Kate Jennings talks about her life's writing, in particular her new memoir Stanley and Sophie, with Elliot Perlman.Readings Carlton. June 08... » play video

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