Warrant Error is not just a book about the war on terror, yet
neither does it seek to evade it, but to exceed it. Each sonnet in
the four sets of 24 (plus 4 other poems, making a hundred) evokes a
little world, as a sonnet ought, and questions it. The poems play
with the expectations we have of the form, as much as they use the
sonnet sequence's traditional power to switch viewpoint or
attention poem by poem. Some of these look hard at the rhetoric of
the war on terror and the one of terror, and, via pun, ferocious
word-play and reversal, effect an interrogative unpacking more
urgent even than in Sheppard's Twentieth Century Blues. Some poems
focus upon single times and places-the field of vision as well as
the field of battle-with an imagistic precision that suggests that
perception is the birth of clear thinking. Others offer
counter-music to the global in the local, by focussing on the
domestic world of fluid selves, small objects and minor incidents,
with a tender and personal tone new to Sheppard's work. Against
this, possible worlds and fantastic scenarios are offered to ask,
in a speculative but often humorous way, how we got the way we
are.As an ambitious whole, Warrant Error wonders whether compassion
is still one of the passions and tests the strengths of what the
poems call the human covenant against human unfinish, an ethical
and aesthetic ideal that aims to suggest that all these
stories-real, fantastic, or both-are only our stories so far. To be
continued. This is not so much about finding beliefs to endure
(into) this dangerous century, but about presenting as poems a
shifting ground upon which they will find themselves at war or
peace.
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