Autobiography of a Marguerite
Author(s): Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
Autobiography of a Marguerite is an innovative autobiography about illness, family dysfunction, and identity, and how they can shape one another. The narrator struggles with the effects of her auto-immune illness, and struggles to separate herself from her troubled mother.
The narrative that emerges from the connected prose poems is both revealing and mysterious. Fragmentation, non-linearity and the use of footnotes reflect the disruptive nature of illness and the nature of recalling memories and family patterns.
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Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle's work has appeared in a wide range of publications. Along with Hue & Cry these include Sport and Landfall, and her poems have been selected for Best New Zealand Poems in 2011 and 2012. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern letters, where was awarded the Biggs Poetry Prize for her manuscript, the first rendition of Autobiography of a Marguerite.
General Fields
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- : Hue & Cry Press
- : Hue & Cry Press
- : 01 June 2014
- : 215mm X 144mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
- : Paperback
- : 821.3
- : 94