The Twelfth of Never
Book Details
Author(s)
Ciaran Carson
Publisher
Wake Forest University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0916390845
ISBN-13
9780916390846
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#2,788,885
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Description
This collection of poetry is a sequence of 77 sonnets, written in alexandrines, that takes the reader through revolutionary France and Ireland to imperial Japan. The poppy recurs as an emblem of peace and the opium wars, and a fractured vision of an ideal republic gradually emerges.
