The Perishing
Sherod Santos · 2003
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About the book
"The Perishing travels between the bounded reach of personal time and the inexorable sweep of history. A double villanelle tracks the course of genocide from Tamerlane to Pol Pot; a narrative reconnects an exiled South American tyrant in a Paris cafe to the killing fields of his country; the paired photographs of Rwandan refugees and a Serbian sniper lead the poet to ponder the link between beauty and horror, the aesthetic and the political.". "Out of this haunted underworld, a variety of historical and literary characters surface to bear witness: Appollinaire reviles his readers from beyond the grave; an analysand recounts a love story grounded in the memory of childhood molestation; Hardy is visited by the shade of his dead wife; Penelope embraces the inevitable loss that Odysseus brings home to her."--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2003
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 96
- ISBN
- 9780393325768
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