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Memo from Alamut
Paperback
American Art - GeneralGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9781959377061
Publisher: C22 Press
Published: Apr 8 2023
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.30 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The poems collected in Memo from Alamut convey a different meaning for every reader receptive to them as communiques of literary energy bursting into a variety of shapes and structures that address human consciousness and respond according to the ways the works affect their sensibilities. In
much the way a millennium of mythological contradictions and inaccurate historical accounts have transformed the mystique of Alamut castle and Hassan-i-Sabbah, its legendary resident, into a tangle of conflicting tales, so the poems range through multiple paths of meaning as they continue their
historical resistance to the control of orthodoxy and carry the pursuit of knowledge beyond the limits others have perceived. In an era in which disposable literature has overtaken the more enduring forms, Memo from Alamut summons the cultural assassins whose efforts attempt to restore a canceled
culture to a position that will revive its innovative instincts and endure to explore the possibilities of language in its evolving forms.
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