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Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes
Broadway
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Wild Peony
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2002
Z975840
2002
selected work
poetry
Broadway
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Wild Peony
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2002
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Vostok and This Could Have Happened to You
Broadway
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Wild Peony
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2002
Z979944
2002
selected work
poetry
Broadway
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Wild Peony
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2002
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Yashodhara : Six Seasons Without You
Sydney
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Wild Peony
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2003
Z1069623
2003
selected work
poetry
These poems tell the story of Yashodhara, the wife of Gautama Buddha. The poetic forms used by Jaireth are those that were popular in ancient and medieval Indian, Sanskrit and non-Sanskrit literatures.
The narrative is constructed around poems about six seasons, with each season made up of six poems of fourteen lines. The season-poems follow a strict poetic structure and represent the voice of Yashodhara. Longer narrative poems interject the season-poems. The narrative poems are about the Buddha and are written in the voice of a contemporary narrator.
(Source: Author's notes in the text of Yashodhara : Six Seasons Without You and in introductory comments to the text of some of the poems that were published in Conversations : Occasional Writing from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies vol.2 no.2 December 2001.)
Sydney : Wild Peony , 2003
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Songs of the Last Chinese Poet
Broadway
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Wild Peony
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1997
Z516663
1997
sequence
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The author has descibed this numbered sequence of 97 untitled poems as 'a metaphysical and postmodern attempt to probe into issues of colonization and self-colonization, change of identities in a new country as a bilingual writer, death as a way of imagination and exorcization, and dark Chinese humor as a send-up of what one sees as the flashy but cheap trappings of an Australian read Western civilization, all in a heightened awareness of the approaching demise of the twentieth century'.
