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How I Get Ready
A reflective journey through everyday life, loss, and the search for meaning in contemporary New Zealand. In How I Get Ready, Ashleigh Young explores the complexities of modern existence with humor and vulnerability. From failing to learn to drive to contemplating mortality, Young's poems capture the beauty and absurdity of the ordinary. Her unique voice and keen observations offer a fresh perspective on personal experiences and the world around us. This collection is for readers who appreciate contemporary poetry that delves into self-reflection, relationships, and the human condition. Discover a poignant and thought-provoking exploration of life's challenges and triumphs. Experience the power of poetry to illuminate the hidden corners of our hearts and minds.
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Can You Tolerate This?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019WINNER OF A WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE 2017'I love this book' MAGGIE NELSON'An essay collection unlike any I've read' New York TimesIn Can You Tolerate This? Ashleigh Young ushers us into her early years, coming of age in a small town in the faraway yet familiar New Zealand, yearning for a larger and more creative life. As Young's perspective expands, a series of historical portraits - a boy with a rare skeletal disease, a French postman who built a stone fortress by hand, a generation of Japanese shut-ins - strike unexpected personal harmonies, as an unselfconscious childhood gives way to painful shyness in adolescence. As we watch Young fall in and out of love, undertake intense physical exercise that masks something deeper, and gradually find herself through her writing, a highly particular psyche comes into view: curious, tender and exacting in her observations of herself and the world around her.
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Can You Tolerate This?
A dazzling-and already prizewinning-collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and disappointment, Katherine Mansfield tourism and New Zealand punk rock, and the limitations of the body. Youth and frailty, ambition and anxiety, the limitations of the body and the challenges of personal transformation: these are the undercurrents that animate acclaimed poet Ashleigh Young's first collection of essays. In Can You Tolerate This?-the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient's pain threshold-Young ushers us into her early years in the faraway yet familiar landscape of New Zealand: fantasizing about Paul McCartney, cheering on her older brother's fledging music career, and yearning for a larger and more creative life. As Young's perspective expands, a series of historical portraits-a boy who grew new bone wherever he was injured, an early French postman who built a stone fortress by hand, a generation of Japanese shut-ins-strike unexpected personal harmonies, as an unselfconscious childhood gives way to painful shyness in adolescence. As we watch Young fall in and out of love, undertake an intense yoga practice that masks an eating disorder, and gradually find herself through her writing, a highly particular psyche comes into view: curious, tender, and exacting in her observations of herself and the world around her. Can You Tolerate This? presents a vivid self-portrait of an introspective yet widely curious young woman, the colorful, isolated community in which she comes of age, and the uneasy tensions-between safety and risk, love and solitude, the catharsis of grief and the ecstasy of creation-that define our lives.
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Magnificent Moon
Ashleigh Young's first book of poems chronicle a decade of her life, glimpses of which have appeared as published poems that are now collected together in this volume. But apart from the already known poems, there are a host of new ones, all of which lend greater weight and resonance to each other. They are tender, complex, and at times restrained, but always with an underlying, burning energy that takes the reader to the edges of emotional experience.
€ 17,50