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Cantilena - One Book in Four Spans (Paperback)
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Cantilena - One Book in Four Spans (Paperback)
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Thematically, Cantilena appropriates subjects familiar to the
Modernist long poem: recent European and American history, art
making, political corruption and the question of individual
complicity, and the bearing of classical and religious heritages on
the present. Cantilena is also one of our only major long poems so
far to consistently engage climate change. Yet, for this reader at
least, the work's chief power comes not from the positions it
stakes out on these topics, but rather from its performance of a
kind of imaginative magic - what Peck calls 'undersending.' This
'undersending' is carried out in three distinct arenas: historical
vignettes, personal remembrances, and synchronicities snatched from
a lifetime of reading. It is no exaggeration to say that the poem
treats the dead, in Henry Vaughan's words, as 'alive and busie.'
These stand-offs with ghosts inform the flux in the speaker's self,
often caught between curiosity and terror: 'Though they only stand
there, they came many miles, / and though you wait, you'll be the
first to move.' -Nate Klug, 'Falling In: A Foreword'
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