The Cure

Writer: Jyoti Brunsdon
Designer, concept: Mike Hudson
Letterpress printer: Mike Hudson
Letterpress printer: Jadwiga Jarvis
Categories: Bookwork / Letterpress Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works, Small Press Books

Reference no.:L/Bru.J/92.00 Place/Shelf:2BL

Book title:	The Cure
Published by:	The Wayzgoose Press
Year made:	1992
Place made:	Australia
Original:	Yes
Edition: (No. in Edition)	50 (39)
Dimensions:	242 x 300
Binder:	bound by Mike Hudson
Physical description:	hard cover case binding, folded paper wrapper
Medium:	poetry
Further information:
"The first draft of 'The Cure' was written shortly after completing the editing of 'The Diaries of Dorothea Mackellar' with Angus & Robertson. With an intense period of work at an end, notwithstanding many satisfactions, there were two emotions to resolve. Firstly, I had a tremendous urge to bid Dorothea and her world good-bye—a genteel, repressive place, peopled with intelligent, sensitive women, who nonetheless accepted unquestioningly the passive role, even when, as in Dorothea's case, it led to nerve breakdowns and alcoholism. Secondly, remaining amicable during the commercial editing process, whereby my work was diluted and sweetened for mass consumption, had left its mark. Then I read that, according to commercial wisdom, women's fiction should not deal with either madness or cancer. That it did. Writing 'The Cure' was fun. The sonata form of the piece and the musical cadence of the language felt natural." Jyoti Brunsdon