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The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice
in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an
overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years.
Contributors discuss a wide range of poets including Caroline
Bergvall and Barry MacSweeney, showing these poets' connections
with their Modernist predecessors.
Leave to Remain is a faux spy-novel possessed by the spirit of
Janus: doubleness, duplicity, double-entendres, two-facedness,
bridges and doorways-as is only appropriate for a work composed by
two writers: one French, one American. Two-faced Janus resurrects
into a time-traveling adventure, a tour of double-agents,
double-speak, and double-dealings. In their earlier hybrid essay, A
Prank of Georges (2010), Thalia Field and Abigail Lang returned us
to "the primal force of language: naming" (Susan Howe). In Leave to
Remain, a weathered Janus pursues an elusive quest, responding to a
world of war, traitors, translations, and the slippery personal and
political terrain between friends and enemies. This silly and
deadly serious fiction-essay aims at nothing less than a full
inquiry into how monstrous we are when we define loyalties and
defend definitions, and how we are all double-agents seeking
meaning and intelligence. Unafraid of being both timeless and
timely, Leave to Remain challenges the reader to play in the world
of folded imagery and language.
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