Palimpsests (ePub)
poems based on the classics that speak to the present
(Sprache: Englisch)
Like a modern Orpheus, Chris Mann explores the underworld of the past and returns with peculiarly African poetry, based on the classics that deepens our understanding of the present. In this collection, youthful Narcissus gazes into a mobile phone,...
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Like a modern Orpheus, Chris Mann explores the underworld of the past and returns with peculiarly African poetry, based on the classics that deepens our understanding of the present. In this collection, youthful Narcissus gazes into a mobile phone, wandering Odysseus sails the seas of the Internet, and picknickers beside a river's pool in South Africa encounter the shades. The satirical poets of ancient Rome mock a strangely familiar hunger for sex and power among politicians, dispossessed Britons revolt against the empire, Vandals ruthlessly plunder wealth and land, and tech-savvy Phoenicians colonise the coast of a pastoral Africa. Rising seas engulf the lost city of Atlantis, and a terrible plague devastates the Athens of Socrates, Pericles, and the Parthenon. Palimpsests speaks to the interplay of different cultures and how the past is interwoven in the fabric of the present. It is a fresh, new offering enabling lovers of the classics to experience this world in a unique, modern and African way.
Autoren-Porträt von Chris Mann
Chris Mann was Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Rhodes University. Beforehis move to Rhodes, he worked in rural education and development for
over a decade, primarily as a director of the Valley Trust outside
Durban. He founded Wordfest South Africa at Rhodes University and his
published work includes fifteen poetry collections and several verse
plays. He is the recipient of an English Academy Gold Medal (2019), the
Patricia Schonstein Poetry in McGregor Prize (2019), a Standard Bank
National Arts Festival Ovation Award for his play, The Ballad of Dirk de
Bruin (2014), the Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry (2007), the Olive
Schreiner Award for South African Poetry (1983) and, while a Rhodes
scholar at Oxford University, the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize (1973).
Dryad Press mourns his passing in 2021.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chris Mann
- 2021, 82 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Dryad Press
- ISBN-10: 1990992277
- ISBN-13: 9781990992278
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.07.2021
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