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Dear Muses?
Essays in Poetry
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Ideal for readers interested in poetry, cultural heritage, and the intersections of classical mythology with modern Australian arts and culture.
Does it make sense to invoke the Muses today? Few of us believe our poems will be better for praying to stola-clad women sitting on a mountain in Greece.
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In these essays, Simon West examines our metaphors for reaching back after inspiration. Rather than cultural rubble ripe for plunder, he celebrates our waterways in imagining that heritage—rivers that nourish the red gums across floodplains. In doing so, he ranges widely, bridging Classical and European interests with a celebration of Australian poets, while asking, always, where is Parnassus now?
Does it make sense to invoke the Muses today? Few of us believe our poems will be better for praying to stola-clad women sitting on a mountain in Greece.
Dear Muses? asks the reader to consider the Muse as something more—a vehicle for acknowledging cultural legacies that radiate out from the past and into contemporary Australia. In addressing the Muses, we talk to that inheritance.
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ISBN: 9781925780468
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 181
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