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- Author: Sean O'Brien
- Publisher: Picador USA
- ISBN-10: 1509840427
- ISBN-13: 9781509840427
- Format: 15 x 19.6 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Sean O'Brien's follow-up to his celebrated collection Europa has a vision as rich and wide-ranging as its predecessor. Set against shorter, ruthlessly focused pieces--vicious and scabrous political sketches and satires charting the growth of extremism and the disintegration of democracy--are meditations on the imaginative life, dream and remembrance, time and recurrence. There are elegies for friends and fellow poets; paranoiac, brooding pastorals; other poems lay bare the maddening trials of a historically literate mind as it attempts to navigate a world gone post-content, post-intellectual, and at times post-memory. At the center of the book is the long poem Hammersmith, a shadowy, cinematic dream-vision of England during and since World War II. Here, O'Brien charts a psychogeographic journey through the English countryside and the haunted precincts of London, mapping a labyrinth of love, madness and lost history. The result is a stirring, illuminating document of a time of immense societal flux and upheaval by one of our finest poets and most insightful cultural commentators.
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- Author: Sean O'Brien
- Publisher: Picador USA
- ISBN-10: 1509840427
- ISBN-13: 9781509840427
- Format: 15 x 19.6 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Sean O'Brien's follow-up to his celebrated collection Europa has a vision as rich and wide-ranging as its predecessor. Set against shorter, ruthlessly focused pieces--vicious and scabrous political sketches and satires charting the growth of extremism and the disintegration of democracy--are meditations on the imaginative life, dream and remembrance, time and recurrence. There are elegies for friends and fellow poets; paranoiac, brooding pastorals; other poems lay bare the maddening trials of a historically literate mind as it attempts to navigate a world gone post-content, post-intellectual, and at times post-memory. At the center of the book is the long poem Hammersmith, a shadowy, cinematic dream-vision of England during and since World War II. Here, O'Brien charts a psychogeographic journey through the English countryside and the haunted precincts of London, mapping a labyrinth of love, madness and lost history. The result is a stirring, illuminating document of a time of immense societal flux and upheaval by one of our finest poets and most insightful cultural commentators.
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