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A Country Without Names offers a conspectus of human activity from
its earliest imagined days and the formation of agrarian state
sedentism to our own day. Its tesserae, gathered from beyond the
boundaries of a single country or culture, constitute a mosaic in
which might be gleaned all the fury and fatuity of the pursuit of
that gilded phantasmagoria of a just and beneficent state. Whilst a
certain sombreness - from Flowering Midnight's dark elegy for the
English pastoral lyric, to the fate of Congo's Patrice Lumumba in
the contemporary, and near contemporary, political parallels
animating Under Jui-yi Shan - imbues the collection it should be
seen, however, as no more than the corollary of an unsentimental
probing of experience, in a collection which is both paean for the
natural world and indictment of those human qualities and
structures which threaten it. Ian Seed, reviewing Ice Stylus, the
last volume, after Interlocutors of Paradise and Obsequy for Lost
Things, in Anderson's Unsubdued Singing trilogy, noted "its highly
charged lyricism ... the language ... sparse, staccato, pared down
to a minimum." And pointed to "its timeless, archetypal quality" to
"the sense of an epic journey into the darkness of the western
psyche ... One is reminded above all, in the tension between the
aesthetic qualities of the writing and its political, historical
and philosophical subject matter, of the work of Ezra Pound ... In
the current political climate this is a book which may also be read
as ... a plea to begin anew with a narrative that acknowledges the
humility of our place within the universe and our responsibility to
it."
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Imprint: |
Shearsman Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Martin Anderson
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
118 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84861-795-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-84861-795-X |
Barcode: |
9781848617957 |
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