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Description for Shield
Paperback. 70 pages, illustrations. Illustrator(s): Hallas, Penny. Focuses on an image from Homer: the great shield which Hephaestus forged for the warrior, Achilles. This work attempts to imagine a shield for the complexities of the current era. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 203 x 129 x 8. Weight: 136.
At the heart of this book is an image from Homer: the great shield which Hephaestus forged for the warrior, Achilles. In his second collection, Lyndon Davies attempts to imagine a shield for the complexities of the current era. What emblems would it carry? Who and what might it be protecting and against what, in a world in which oppositions are at once agonisingly entrenched and radically compromised? In the bristling arena of the shield, the narratives flash and jostle...The poems are interspersed with the powerful drawings of Penny Hallas, texts and visual images forming one troubling, many-dimensional work.
At the heart of this book is an image from Homer: the great shield which Hephaestus forged for the warrior, Achilles. In his second collection, Lyndon Davies attempts to imagine a shield for the complexities of the current era. What emblems would it carry? Who and what might it be protecting and against what, in a world in which oppositions are at once agonisingly entrenched and radically compromised? In the bristling arena of the shield, the narratives flash and jostle...The poems are interspersed with the powerful drawings of Penny Hallas, texts and visual images forming one troubling, many-dimensional work.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Parthian Books
Number of pages
70
Condition
New
Number of Pages
70
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906998172
SKU
V9781906998172
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-26
About Lyndon Davies
Lyndon Davies is the author of "Hyphasis." His poetry has appeared in the anthologies "Poetry WalesForty Years" and "The Pterodactyl s Wing." Penny Hallas is an artist and art therapist who is involved with Poetry Jamboree, a festival in Hay on Wye."
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