Sleepwalking with Orpheus
Published on 15. February 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-84861-138-2 (ISBN)
Description
Haunted by Cocteau's version of the Orpheus myth since 1968, Craig Watson collected a palimpsest of renderings, fragments and images from the Orphic tradition for the next 40 years. In 2008, he returned to these materials in the wake of a near fatal stroke. The result is Sleepwalking with Orpheus, a constellation of voices that recount the legendary singer's continuous journey through the realms that compose a life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations; black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
133 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-138-2 (9781848611382)
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Craig Watson is the author of eleven books and chapbooks. His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous literary journals since 1982. His most recent book, Secret Histories (Burning Deck, 2007), completes a trilogy that includes Free Will (Roof, 2000) and True News (Instance, 2002). Among other considerations, these books traverse the languages and silences that by turn construct and erase history, even as its actual subjects struggle to endure.