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Autobiography of a Marguerite
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Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
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Poetry. 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.
"In this profound, book-length poem, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle undoes the self right back to th ...more
"In this profound, book-length poem, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle undoes the self right back to th ...more
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94 pages
Published
June 2014
by Hue & Cry Press
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I love this book because it defies traditional poetic convention, while at the same time allowing moments of more lyrical, poetic play through the quite stark emotional landscape. I love it because it doesn't shy away from sadness or beauty but both of these things are approached in an original way that feels honest. I love it because no story is linear, no family history contains one solid version of truth, and because the beauty and strangeness of family is that we are all made up of one anoth
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Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle (b.1990) is the author of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MARGUERITE (Hue & Cry Press, 2014). Her work has appeared in publications such as Landfall, Best NZ Poems, Colorado Review, and Versal. She currently lives in Auckland.
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