In the Wake of the Day
by
John Ash
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1847770444
ISBN-13
9781847770448
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 28th, 2010
Weight
124 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 13.50 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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A work of journeys; from the chaotic energy of urban life in modern Istanbul, where John Ash lives, to the ruins of vanished civilisations; from personal incident to the narratives and vacancies of cultures.
"In the Wake of the Day" is a book of memories and journeys; from the chaotic energy of urban life in modern Istanbul, where John Ash lives, to the ruins of vanished civilisations; from personal incident to the narratives and vacancies of cultures. Ash inhabits the fertile and ambiguous territory where East and West meet. We 'know and do not know' the past. In an 'imperial city without empire, place of paradox', time too becomes fluid. The ancient, half-imagined past of Ur, Alexandria, Cappadocia coexists with a contemporary world in which 'tank tracks are driven over Babylon'. At the centre of this collection are John Ash's versions of poems by the great Alexandrian C.P. Cavafy. Working with Cavafy's voice, Ash expresses his own urbane intelligence.
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