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Taking Mesopotamia
Jenny Lewis
出版Carcanet, 2014-03-10
主題Poetry / GeneralPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN190618819X9781906188191
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=r7puBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.