Distant Mandate - Ange Mlinko

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\nIn Distant Mandate, Ange Mlinko moves between the tormented southern landscape, with its alternately arid and flooded scrublands, and the imaginative landscapes of Western art. Guided by her spiritual forbears--Orpheus, Mallarmé, Pound, Yeats, and others--Mlinko deftly places herself within the tradition of the poet in protest against the obduracy of the real. \n \nMlinko takes the title from a piece by Laszló Krasznahorkai on the unknowable origins of the Alhambra, the monument for the sight of which there is only a distant mandate . . . [one] can see, in any event, the moment of creation of the world, of course all the while understanding nothing of it. This distant mandate, also the bitter ideal of Mallarmé, is the foundation upon which all works of art are composed--the torment of eros and the intimation of war. \n \nMyth is central to these poems; some are based on the story Cupid and Psyche, others serve as odes to Aphrodite or as explorations of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In Distant Mandate, Mlinko has given us a shimmering and vibrant collection, one that shows us not only how literature imagines itself through life but also how life reimagines itself through literature.\n

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St. Martins Press-3pl

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ENSTK

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9780374537739

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1

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