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Grimspound and Inhabiting Art Rod Mengham

Grimspound and Inhabiting Art By Rod Mengham

Grimspound and Inhabiting Art by Rod Mengham


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Mengham offers two books in one, prose and poetry, landscape and history.

Grimspound and Inhabiting Art Summary

Grimspound and Inhabiting Art by Rod Mengham

Rod Menghams new offering comprises two complementary halves: a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound on Dartmoor); and a series of short essays on different cultural habitats. Grimspound is a four-part work combining prose and verse, composed on site over the course of ten years. It combines a `wild analysis of Hound of the Baskervilles (whose climactic scene takes place at Grimspound), a portrait of the Victorian excavator Sabine Baring-Gould, and a series of poems that draw on the Russian linguist Aharon Dolgopolskys experimental Nostratic Dictionary. Inhabiting Art gathers essays on cultural history in relation to landscape and cityscape, viewed either episodically or in the form of a palimpsest, where the present state of the habitat both reveals and conceals its own history and prehistory.

Grimspound and Inhabiting Art Reviews

`Menghams understanding of history as a living, evolving, ever present material template onto which experience can be inscribed and evaluated makes this collection of essays and his evocation of Grimspound so special. - Antony Gormley

About Rod Mengham

Rod Menghams published poetry includes Chance of a Storm (Carcanet, 2015), Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2001), Parley and Skirmishes (Ars Cameralis, 2007) and with Marc Atkins a book of texts and film stills, Still Moving (Veer, 2014). He has published monographs and edited collections of essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, violence and avant-garde art, the 1940s, and contemporary poetry. He has co-edited the anthologies Altered State: The New Polish Poetry (2003) and Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (2005). His translations include Andrzej Sosnowskis Speedometry (Contraband, 2014).

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GOR009457529
9781784105907
1784105902
Grimspound and Inhabiting Art by Rod Mengham
Used - Like New
Paperback
Carcanet Press Ltd
2018-11-29
256
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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