AMERICAN RETROSPECTIVE
Poems 1961-2016
Eleanor Rimoldi
and ways of you
gently settled
in my palm.
At the age of 22, Eleanor Rimoldi left New York to begin a long journey to the other side of the world. Sitting on the train to San Francisco, she began the title poem in this collection: a haunting farewell to the country of her birth. Over the next 57 years, in America and New Zealand, through migration, marriage and separation, motherhood and career, Rimoldi has continued to write. With a distinctive, precise and powerful voice, her poems burrow deep into love and grief and the nature of home. This first comprehensive selection of Eleanor Rimoldi’s poetry collects both published and previously unseen poems.
“A notable and significant collection.”
Murray Edmond, Landfall
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Eleanor Rimoldi was born and raised in Buffalo, New York and emigrated to New Zealand in 1961. She has taught anthropology at universities in Auckland, Tonga and Bouganville. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and magazines (previously under the names Eleanor Horrocks and Eleanor Clarke) and included in anthologies, including Private Gardens: an Anthology of New Zealand Women Poets; Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975; and The Earth’s Deep Breathing: Garden Poems by New Zealand Poets. She currently lives on Waiheke Island in Auckland.
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AMERICAN RETROSPECTIVE
Eleanor Rimoldi
ISBN 978-0-473-42208-0
56 pages
Perfect bound, 148mm x 210mm