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"The bulk of the book is a long, narrative poem. The Romantic poets Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge conceived a plan to found a Pantisocratic (egalitarian) community in America; the plan came to nothing, but Muldoon imagines what would have happened if they had gone ahead. Encounters with North American Indians are mingled with political plots; there is a talking horse called Bucephalus; Southey's (genuine) poem, Madoc, based on a mythic early arrival in America by a medieval Welsh chieftain, is invoked; and, as if this wasn't enough, the whole narrative is actually being read from the dissolving retina of a man called South, caught in the distant future by feuding alien tribes, in a Dome in what used to be Ireland. On top of that, each verse segment of the long poem is surtitled by the name of a philosopher or thinker, from the early Greeks to Stephen Hawking and Jacques Derrida; the verses bear a greater or lesser connection to the life, work or name of the thinkers."
Read from the dissolving retina of a man caught in the distant future by feuding alien tribes. In Ireland.
I must read this.
Read from the dissolving retina of a man caught in the distant future by feuding alien tribes. In Ireland.
I must read this.