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Icarus poem

Heather H. Yeung

Two wood pulp postcards forming a pair of near-identical poems on the fall of Icarus. In one, the falling motion is represented by the repeated word ‘dashed’, and in the other by em dashes, suggesting the violence of Icarus’s death.


Heather H. Yeung

Reproduced by permission of the author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see Terms and Conditions, and for copyright and citation enquiries please Ask a Librarian.

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21st century poems blue classical poetry death myths poems inspired by paintings poems on postcards sea sky visual poetry

About this poem

Date 2016
Dimensions h 19.5 x w 14 cm
Materials woodpulp card
Catalogue ab 3. Yeu 46453

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Heather H. Yeungb. 1984

Heather H. Yeung (楊希蒂) is a poet, visual artist, book maker and performer. Most of her work includes poetic text in some form, but this characteristically migrates between media and practices, from hand-made artist books to installations, prints and...
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