For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the
essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal
journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of
stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his essays
are works of the imagination where all the facts are verifiable. As
entertaining as fiction and as vivid as poems, making unexpected
stops in odd corners of the globe or forgotten moments in human
history, erudite, politically engaged, and acerbically witty, there
is nothing quite like his work in contemporary writing.
In Karmic Traces, Weinberger's third collection from New
Directions, twenty-four essays take the reader along on the
author's personal travels from the Atacama Desert to Iceland to
Hong Kong on the verge of the handover to China, as well as on
imagined voyages in a 17th-century Danish ship bound for India and
among strange religious cults or even stranger small animals. One
never knows what will appear next: Viking dreams, Aztec rituals,
Hindu memory, laughing fish, or prophetic dogs. And, in "The
Falls", the long tour-de-force that closes the book, Weinberger
recapitulates 3,000 years of history in a cascade of telling facts
to uncover the deep roots of contemporary racism and violence.
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