Live at Lethe |
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Author:
| Jones, M. P. |
ISBN: | 978-0-615-82186-3 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | Northern Lake Publishing LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $13.99 |
Book Description:
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Brimming with darkness and forgetting,
Live at Lethe is an epic collection composed of short lyric reflections, steeped in the waters of oblivion. This tapestry of loss is woven with the dark silk of Southern ecological destruction and the passing of the poet's grandfather--post-Fugitive Agrarian novelist Madison Jones--whose work reflected a fear that the South had lost its "redemptive memory." The elegiac songs of
Live at Lethe reach wildly for meaning in a world...
More DescriptionBrimming with darkness and forgetting, Live at Lethe is an epic collection composed of short lyric reflections, steeped in the waters of oblivion. This tapestry of loss is woven with the dark silk of Southern ecological destruction and the passing of the poet's grandfather--post-Fugitive Agrarian novelist Madison Jones--whose work reflected a fear that the South had lost its "redemptive memory." The elegiac songs of Live at Lethe reach wildly for meaning in a world increasingly filled with disappearance and shadow.