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The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible

The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible

Cairns, Scott
Wangerin, Walter

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $37.00

ISBN10: 1498240623
ISBN13: 9781498240628
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: May 31 2017
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible is a volume of poems divided into three parts. The three parts are bound together by a brace of persistent and developing themes, as well as by the repetition (and the development) of language, metaphor, and imagery. Part 1 presents various characters (mostly African American) confronting death. The poems in part 2 are spoken by an unnamed narrator about his cancer. My cancer, actually, and my experiences. Parts 2 and 3 both descend into silence. Part 3 is a radical reworking of the ancient Mesopotamian epic loosely known as The Songs of Heaven and Hell. The poems are not a translation, though each derives from a separate song, and each uses the characters, the events, the worldview, and the stark imagery of Babylon in the third century BCE. In many respects, these poems have the prosody of the biblical psalms.

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