Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the
bizarre and the prodigious, Peter Davidson's collection is a
cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens
and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It moves between
languages and continents, English and Latin, the Spanish
Netherlands and Spanish America, the Mediterranean and the north.
The title sequence evokes a half-known, half-fantastic, seventeenth
century; a shorter sequence transforms contemporary England through
the eyes of a spy. The collection ends with a group of elegies and
epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland.
Erudite and witty, "The Palace of Oblivion" is about remembering
and inventing out of memory, and provides haunting visions of decay
and splendor.
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