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Orpheus
Theo Dorgan
Orpheus
Theo Dorgan
From self-imposed distance ("I stand back from the streetlight at her school gate") to a distance that cannot be bridged in a single lifetime, the poems in Theo Dorgan's extraordinary new collection tell the story of Orpheus, the musician-poet, from artistic awakening through to the cost of remaining faithful to his calling.
In a book presented in two halves, and composed throughout in sapphics - in English, one of the most challenging of poetic forms - Dorgan's contemporary Orpheus is part-drifter, part-troubadour, part-lover, recognising deeper patterns in his behaviour, but always of this place and time. In the book's second half, the locus shifts farther out into mythic space with a parallel narrative from the Greek world that both mirrors and interweaves with the first half's here-and-now.
Together they offer a fresh, adventurous and unexpected take on a foundational mythic figure.
Media | Książki Hardcover Book (Książka z twardym grzbietem i okładką) |
Wydane | 19 kwietnia 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781910251362 |
Wydawcy | Dedalus Press |
Strony | 80 |
Wymiary | 140 × 216 × 8 mm · 249 g |
Język | English |
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