The Tower of Diverse Shores |
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Author:
| Schwartz, Leonard |
ISBN: | 978-1-58498-031-5 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2003 |
Publisher: | Talisman House, Publishers
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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Poetry. "When a (young) Empire for the first time suffers invasion, hurt, pain, a casting off of symbols, trauma before the closing of ranks, vessels, values, there is also a reconsideration—at best a reconstitution—of the very tissues of language as if the culture has to learn how to speak all over again, to see itself—if lucky—fresh. A beginning which is made here, in these remarkable poems by Leonard Schwartz. THE TOWER OF DIVERSE SHORES is one of the finest...
More DescriptionPoetry. "When a (young) Empire for the first time suffers invasion, hurt, pain, a casting off of symbols, trauma before the closing of ranks, vessels, values, there is also a reconsideration—at best a reconstitution—of the very tissues of language as if the culture has to learn how to speak all over again, to see itself—if lucky—fresh. A beginning which is made here, in these remarkable poems by Leonard Schwartz. THE TOWER OF DIVERSE SHORES is one of the finest collection of this new post-catastrophe generation."
—Kamau Brathwaite