New Days for Old Carrie Rudzinski Gloss transposes the Greek myth

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New Days for Old Carrie Rudzinski Gloss transposes the Greek mythNew Days for Old is a delightful experiment in form by New Zealand poet James Brown. Each scene in this book is like a 1 minute pop song: its depths are at first easy to miss. But as the story proceeds, the grand scheme of things hoves into view: we are born, we crawl and then are carried away, and everything is a shimmer, even the disappointments. New Days for Old is a life story in small scenes. Funny, moving, erotic, political and undeniably odd,