Taking Mesopotamia
by
Jenny Lewis
Book Details
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 poetsPoetry 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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