Imperium

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Winner of A Somerset Maugham Award 2023Winner of An Eric Gregory Award 2023Winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023 By reimagining episodes from Homer's Odyssey, Jay Gao's highly anticipated debut collection, Imperium, introduces an innovative talent whose work cuts across poetic traditions, traversing mythic cartographies and imperial formations. Exploring forms of absolute and intimate power, Imperium is an imaginative meditation on how the past lives on in the present by way of, and beyond, a global poetics of diaspora.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-25
Mått135 x 216 x 9 mm
Vikt130 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor92
FörlagCarcanet Press Ltd
ISBN9781800172470
UtmärkelserWinner of Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2023

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'Nuanced, challenging, sometimes hilarious, often anguished, this impressive reimagining of The Odyssey makes for an unforgettable road trip; Gao's Odysseus is a nervy and compelling traveller, a sort of non-hero, itinerant and always somewhat lost. Waylaid with Gao in hotel bars and tour buses, we are estranged, sensitized as we go to the dislocations and non-belonging of children of the world's diasporas, and also to the structures of appropriation and exploitation embedded in travel. We are all conditioned and implicated; but perhaps this acute and attentive Odysseus is exactly who we need to help us listen to the buried histories of Imperialism, to "wait a little differently, mourn a / little more".' Fiona Benson