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03815aam a2200445 i 4500 001 6189D9D4DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 190628s2019 enk 000 p eng d 010 $a 2019458714 020 $a 9781845234522 020 $a 1845234529 035 $a (OCoLC)1105897065 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d UKOBU $d YDXIT $d STF $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d DLC $d OCLCQ $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9619.3.K55 $b T36 2019 050 4 $a PR9619.3.K55 $b A6 2019 050 4 $a PR1228 $b .K56 2019 082 04 $a 821.914 $2 23 082 04 $a 821/.9208 $2 23 100 1 $a Kinsella, John, $d 1963- $e author. 245 10 $a Tangling with the epic / $c by John Kinsella and Kwame Dawes. 264 1 $a Leeds : $b Peepal Tree Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 121 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "The third in a quartet of poem-dialogues between Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella, begun in 2015 with the critically acclaimed 'Speak From Here to There' (2016), and followed by 'A New Beginning' (2018), Tangling With The Epic explores commonalities and difference, the results reminding us of how poetry can offer comfort and solace, and how it can ignite a peculiar creative frenzy that enriches. In writing 110 single or double Spenserian stanzas in dialogue with each other, Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella thoroughly deconstruct and recompose ideas about the epic. At times, the "stern constraints / of syllable and rhyme" construct the satisfying rigour of a lacerating Swiftian satire - almost as means of preventing a collapse into the incoherence of prophetic rage; at other times rhyme creates the beauty of form and the shapeliness of thought. Various epics of empire, past and present are sternly demolished: from the deceitful myths of the virtuous enterprise of the slave-owning Thomas Jefferson, to the Caribbean "where battles/ for tiny rocks were waged", to Australian narratives of white nationhood, or the bloated Trumpian lies of MAGA. There is also, inevitably, a sense of caution about each writer's own epic enterprise, for Kinsella "this desire I have that marries/ the north to the south", or for Dawes the "hopes of grand mercy" we are constantly forced to abort. In response there is the comfort to be drawn from "pilfering small graces" of moments of epiphany, but in the very construction of the dialogue there is the metaphor of "the entangled webbing/ we spin" - as if one cannot not be part of some vaster human network, what Kinsella names later as the "slow unfolding/ of an epic that can't really locate itself in time or place..." For the reader, there is much pleasure to be had in tracing the ways in which images, ideas and words migrate between poems, commented on, turned on their heads, or mined for meanings other than those seemingly intended. As the third of this sequence, distinctive personas, biographies, approaches to poetic form and language take the poetry in in the direction of the dramatic." --cover page [4]. 500 $a "A Poetry Book Society recommendation." 500 $a Poems. 500 $a "All the odd-numbered poems are by John Kinsella (JK) and all the even-numbered poems are by Kwame Davis (KD). 650 0 $a Jamaican poetry $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Australian poetry $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Caribbean poetry (English) $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Australian poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821490 650 7 $a Ghanaian poetry $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Caribbean poetry (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00847495 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Serial poetry. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Dawes, Kwame Senu Neville, $d 1962- $e author. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117011400.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405012634.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6189D9D4DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search