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Ice Stylus (Paperback)
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Ice Stylus (Paperback)
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The sequences of meditations which comprise Anderson's last two
books Interlocutors of Paradise (Skylight Press) and Obsequy for
Lost Things (Shearsman Books) trace fault lines deeply inscribed
within the Judeo-Christian psyche of the West. Ice Stylus is the
final volume of Anderson's Unsubdued Singing trilogy. Many of the
sequences in Interlocutors of Paradise and Obsequy for Lost Things
begin in a geography which is both real and subliminal: the Essex
Thames-side salt marsh. This is also Isaiah's "parched wastes of
salt": here manifestation of wilderness, the condition of spiritual
inanition, which has so frequently been attributed by the West to
the non-West to legitimise aggression whilst masking its real
objective of the expropriation of other peoples' wealth, finds
objective representation. It is the aggressor himself, the
sequences suggest, not the victim, who suffers from inanition. From
the salt marshes his questing voyages take him in search of things
he covets and dreams of, only to confront him, finally, with the
reality of their non-existence. In this "dark land", perhaps
intimating archetypal adventure, his passage takes him through the
trials and ordeals of many wastes of water. What such a journey
eventually delivers to him, however, is not a sacred fire of
illumination or boon of wisdom to take back to his old world to
re-vivify it. Instead, he is vouchsafed the white isotope of
destruction, turning everything dark and possessing the potential
to annihilate the very products of time he has so violently sought
to wrest from others.
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