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Book SynopsisAn astonishing musical quality resonates throughout this collection, full of echoes and recapitulations tying the epic range of material together. From fairy tales to the Bible, Jerusalem to Hollywood, Cromwell to the Suffragettes, cafes to graveyards, the reader is taken to iconic times and landmarks, to breathe in the herbs of history. This is a world where whipped cream is not innocent, just as William Morris wallpaper has significance. Here chance encounters and solitary confinements constantly push at what communication, language and, ultimately, poetry can do. As rich in emotional truth as intellectual risk, this collection always provides enough space for the reader to enter its playful, if unsettling, symphony and engage wholeheartedly.
Table of Contentsnatural chemistry; Goneril; apple boy; is Joan Baez Virginia Woolf's real daughter?; kindness, you can't accuse me of; haiku for Rosie; photography (for Eve Arnold 1913-2012); on looking for a new bathroom suite (we hear sweet charity); Esther's book (or atheism); Los Angeles; Sunday; Monday; Tuesday; Wednesday; Thursday; Friday; Mantegna and I; owning up; like the dawn I was before; burning sage; snow and sewers in Berlin; stones at; the French lady at Christmas; the Hidden God (or atheism); dialectical haiku (intertextual); Samson after Milton; Silk Thistle or how the vote was won; Black Maria; First date; Politics; Memory; I meet a hero; Prison 1; Silence; Prison 2; Cell; Day; Protest 1; Arrest 1; Prison 3; Protest 2; Arrest 2; Black Friday; Protest 3; Prison 4; Dream; Prison 5; dialectical: palimpsest/palindrome/barlines; 1. palimpsest; a) noun; b) Adjective; 2. palindrome; 3. barlines; illuminatus 1- 26; Ophelia 1-13
