The butterfly man

by Shane McCauley

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Title	The butterfly man
Author	Shane McCauley
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Tags	poetry, Australian
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Your review	To enjoy these, you need to be either alarmingly well-read or unintimidated by encountering someone who is much better read than you. I'm in the latter category. The range of reference is huge: from an aged Samurai arranging flowers to an Islamic executioner, from Ancient Greece and Rome to Chuang-tzu, from Western Australian landmarks to scientific and mythopoeic cosmology. And I trusted his references: when he attributed thoughts to La Perouse in the long 'La Perouse to Eleanore', I believed he had immersed himself in La Perouse's writing enough to have got it right. I intend reading this again.
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Publication	Fremantle Arts Centre Press (1991), Paperback, 110 pages
Publication date	1991
ISBN	094920689X / 9780949206893
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Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
Original language
Date acquired
Date started	2008-08-07
Date finished	2008-08-14
Summary 1	The butterfly man by Shane McCauley (1991)
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Number of copies	1
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