Glossing the Spoils by Charlotte Hussey
Each poem in Glossing the Spoils works like an intricate time-travel machine, carrying the reader back to the beginnings of Western European literature. Like an ancient clapper bridge with its unmortared slabs of flat sandstone, these poems step us across the choppy currents of the past 1500 years. Anchored at one end in the deep past and at the other in the turbulent present, they explore interconnections between historical, personal, psychological, and mythic states. Plundering their opening passages from such early texts as Beowulf, The Mabinogion, and The Tain, these glosas address eternal themes of love and war and give voice to the surreal potency of the Western European imagination.
Charlotte Hussey teaches courses on Breton lais and Old Irish and Arthurian literature at Montreal's Dawson College. She has published Rue Sainte Famille, which was shortlisted for the QSPELL poetry award, and a chapbook, The Head Will Continue to Sing. Writing a doctorate on the poet H.D. awakened her love of antiquity.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906900526 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906900523 |
| Title | Glossing the Spoils |
| Author | Charlotte Hussey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Awen Publications |
| Year published | 2017-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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