Orpheus (Hardback)
Hardcover 80 pages English Apr 19, 2018
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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.
- Author:
- THEO. DORGAN
- Publisher:
- Dedalus Press
- Publication Date:
- Apr 19, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 80 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1910251364
- ISBN-13:
- 9781910251362