Greek Passages - Brossura

Riley, Peter

 
9781848610514: Greek Passages
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1848610513 ISBN 13: 9781848610514
Casa editrice: Shearsman Books, 2009

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"Greek Passages" is a set of 105 prose-poems derived from four sojourns in Greece, mostly in the vicinity of Argos and thus at the hub of early Greek power. The structure is entirely diurnal, building each poem from the day's events, so that cognizance of monumental historical figures and events infiltrate from outside into notes of fauna, ruins, the news, books about Greece or not, American music listened to, pleasant dinners, dreams of northern England etcetera. Two shorter stays on the west coast of the Peloponnese furnish beginning and ending sections of a gentler, more lyrical cast, and there are interruptive excursions, mostly to the remains of cities and wars. Everywhere what is presented to the eyes is the starting-point for a poetical process creating lenses in location and sense. Greece is not elsewhere, it is there at the bottom of the garden; we speak it every day, and its stories are meshed into our meanings. The very words we use echo the passage of populations from east to west and back across Greece, entwined with further movements between Africa and the North ...These things impinge centrally on rhapsodies of distance and peace.

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Editore
Shearsman Books
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1848610513
ISBN 13 
9781848610514
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
124
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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