The Book of Mirrors tries to let us see ourselves as we really are. We should have the answers to all our own questions, but if we don't see ourselves clearly - faults included - our answers can be distorted by vanities or ego. The Book of Mirrors examines the ideas of argument, resolution and the acceptance of what cannot be changed. Frieda Hughes was born in London in 1960, grew up in Devon, and after living in various parts of England and Australia now lives on the Welsh Borders. She wrote and painted from an early age, and for many years has been a painter and children's writer.
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'An accomplished painter, she brings to her poetry the same landscape of contrasts, in her vivid descriptions of light and dark, struggle and release, the cleansing properties of fire. She is a courageous poet with a rich palette' - MAURA DOOLEY & JAMIE McKENDRICK, PBS Bulletin. 'This is poetry come out of siege' - JOHN KINSELLA, Observer.
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Frieda Hughes was born in London in 1960, and grew up in Devon. She wrote and painted from an early age, and for many years has been a painter and children's writer. She lives on the Welsh Borders and is married to painter Laszlo Lukacs. She has published three poetry collections with Bloodaxe, Wooroloo (1999), Stonepicker (2001) and Waxworks (2002), with The Book of Mirrors forthcoming in 2009. She received a NESTA Award in 2002 to help her work on Forty-five, her portrait of her life in 45 poems and paintings, the poems from which were published by HarperCollins in the US in 2006. Her first children's book, Getting Rid of Edna, was published by Heinemann (UK) and Harper & Row (USA) in 1984. Four other titles followed from Simon and Schuster: The Meal a Mile Long (1989) and Waldorf and the Sleeping Granny (1990), which she also illustrated; followed byThe Thing in the Sink(1992) and Rent-a-Friend (1994). Her most recent titles are The Tall Story (MacDonald Young Books, 1997) and Three Scary Stories(HarperCollins, 2001).
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Insightful and entertaining reading,
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This review is from: The Book of Mirrors (Paperback)
The answers are within, but it doesn't within isn't a hard to manage mess. "The Book of Mirrors" is a collection of poetry from Frieda Hughes, focusing on the subject of self reflection. Her poems ask the reader many questions of how to find the truth and come to terms with it. Insightful and entertaining reading, "The Book of Mirrors" is not to be missed. "Letters": There's no justice I can do/To the memory of you./Your letters read as clearly to me now/As they did when written./Book-bound they might illuminate/The father that you were, so other see/The loss you are to me.
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