In FIRST BLOOD, Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize winner and singer-songwriter, Natalie D-Napoleon, brings us a collection of poems that challenge our preconceptions of girlhood. Girls are sung about the world over, yet the selfhood of girls remains unknown:
'Her body was not hers, a stitch / of animal, a pinch of dirt, a girl / is made of words plus liquid minus time.'
The daughter of Croatian-immigrant farmers, D-Napoleon stitches together this debut collection of poems-as-memoir into a web of poems both created and found.
REVIEWS of FIRST BLOOD say:
'Natalie D-Napoleon’s words go straight for the heart of the reader.'
- Writing WA
'This is highly cerebral poetry that nevertheless hits you in the guts.'
- Alison Clifton, StylusLit
'First Blood: A Sestina' is an unsettling poem...a critique of self and society in terms of the female body, a strong undoing of form working hand-in-hand with the application of that form, the sestina.'
- John Kinsella, Poet
All Three of Natalie's Poetry Books
$60 AUD
If There Is a Butterfly That Drinks Tears
$25 AUD
Handwritten Lyrics
$25 AUD
Live Sketch T-Shirt
$35 AUD
You Wanted to Be the Shore but Instead You Were the Sea – Compact Disc
$15 AUD
Leaving Me Dry – Compact Disc
$15 AUD
Natalie D-Napoleon Santa Barbara, California
Natalie D-Napoleon is an Australian-American singer-songwriter and poet who formed a US-based trio with Kenny Edwards (Linda Ronstadt) and Dan Phillips. Natalie’s latest album, You Wanted to Be the Shore But Instead You Were the Sea, was recorded with one mic in a hundred year old chapel and features Phillips along with James Connolly (Van Dyke Parkes) and Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams). ... more
