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Illennium (Paperback, New)
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Illennium (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R452
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Set in 'South-Wets Wales' Illennium is a cut-up sonnet sequence
which draws on recent theories about the social role of shame, as
it kaleidoscopically traces the trajectory of a romantic attachment
across a tangle of shifting friendships. Mixing disease and
end-of-era career discontents, the personal and the personnel, its
narratives constantly cohere and fracture under the blown down sign
of The No Sign bar, a local watering-hole. Indeed, the more
shameless the embarrassment of literary riches the poem shores up,
from Shakespeare to Berrigan, Laforgue to Keats, Rimbaud to Dafydd
ap Gwilym, the more the chances of emotional and poetic plenitude
seem to be thwarted by 'silences stubbed out' on an 'I for an I /
in the very temple of delight'. Yet, if the intersection of a
personal pathology with the public ones of Clinton's Washington or
Blair's Balkans disturbs us here by virtue of its apparent
superficiality, it noneless sharply raises the question of how much
we really wish to conceal what we think we (really) feel.Moreover,
for all its fears of the 'dork inability' of the poet, even of
poetry itself, to resist abject collapse, Illennium cannot help
being brazen either, revealing itself over and over again to be a
peach-succulent, recklessly playful work, whose blushful excesses
bear witness to the 'brilliantly pointless' energies of language in
lyric form.
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