Taking Mesopotamia

Name: Taking Mesopotamia
Brand: Carcanet Press Ltd
SKU: 9781906188115
Price: 1800 KES
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ISBN: 9781906188115

by Jenny Lewis

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1906188114

ISBN-13 9781906188115

Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd

Imprint OxfordPoets

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 27th, 2014

Print length 96 Pages

Weight 142 grams

Dimensions 21.50 x 13.20 x 0.90 cms

Product Classification: Poetry / poems by individual poets Poetry by individual poets

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A poet’s search for her lost father links the Iraq War to its roots in a WW1 campaign.

Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis’s search for her lost father – the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, formal poems and free verse, the book extends into a wider exploration of the recent Iraq wars. It also includes translations of a number of the poems into Arabic, and photographs taken by Lewis’s father on campaign in 1916. Woven throughout the book is a strand inspired by The Epic of Gilgamesh, whose themes of hubris, abuse of power and fear of death show us how little the world has changed in four thousand years.

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