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02022aam a2200289 i 4500 001 91516248664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 210812s2021 sa 000 p eng d 020 $a 9781990992261 020 $a 1990992269 035 $a (OCoLC)1263662811 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDX $d L2U $d X$@ $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d IaU $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.3.M348 $b P35 2021 082 04 $a 821/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Mann, Chris, $d 1948- $e author. 245 10 $a Palimpsests / $c by Chris Mann ; with a preface by Michael Lambert. 264 1 $a Cape Town, South Africa : $b Dryad Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xv, 63 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher 655 0 $a South African poetry (English) 655 2 $a Poetry 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423828 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030301.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91516248664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search