Let the dead

10.00

Deeply attuned to those things that make and unmake us, Dylan Brennan’s ‘Let The Dead’ concerns itself with life’s alchemical processes. A couple breathe life into a doomed poppet, a photographer immortalises a corpse, Joyce and Breton rub shoulders on the streets of the poet’s adopted Mexico, where life is a tapestry of ‘delicate anthers’ and ‘disembodied tongues’. These dark meditations are set against poems which consider love, miscarriage, childbirth and the daily miracle of family life. Beautiful and disturbing by turns, these reflections on Ireland and Mexico’s shared colonial past invoke topographies both real and imagined, where ‘things in the ground have a tendency to grow’.

Quantity
SKU: 9781838312695 Category: Tag:

Description

Deeply attuned to those things that make and unmake us, Dylan Brennan’s Let The Dead concerns itself with life’s alchemical processes. A couple breathe life into a doomed poppet, a photographer immortalises a corpse, Joyce and Breton rub shoulders on the streets of the poet’s adopted Mexico, where life is a tapestry of ‘delicate anthers’ and ‘disembodied tongues’. These dark meditations are set against poems which consider love, miscarriage, childbirth and the daily miracle of family life. Beautiful and disturbing by turns, these reflections on Ireland and Mexico’s shared colonial past invoke topographies both real and imagined, where ‘things in the ground have a tendency to grow.’ Let the Dead reminds us of the power of art to shape our perception of history, and of the artist’s responsibility in a time of violence.

Additional information

Weight 0.15 kg
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.5 × 1 cm
Book_author

Brennan, Dylan

Publisher

Banshee Press

Imprint

Banshee Press

Cover

Paperback

Pages

112

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

Go to Top