{"product_id":"a-country-without-names-martin-anderson-9781848617957","title":"A Country Without Names","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Country Without Names \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a conspectus of human activity from its earliest imagined days and the formation of agrarian state sedentism to our own day. Its tesserae, gathered from beyond the boundaries of a single country or culture, constitute a mosaic in which might be gleaned all the fury and fatuity of the pursuit of that gilded phantasmagoria of a just and beneficent state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst a certain sombreness - from \u003cem\u003eFlowering Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e's dark elegy for the English pastoral lyric, to the fate of Congo's Patrice Lumumba in the contemporary, and near contemporary, political parallels animating \u003cem\u003eUnder Jui-yi Shan\u003c\/em\u003e - imbues the collection it should be seen, however, as no more than the corollary of an unsentimental probing of experience, in a collection which is both paean for the natural world and indictment of those human qualities and structures which threaten it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Seed, reviewing \u003cem\u003eIce Stylus \u003c\/em\u003ethe last volume, after \u003cem\u003eInterlocutors of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eObsequy for Lost Things\u003c\/em\u003e, in Anderson's \u003cem\u003eUnsubdued Singing\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy, noted \"its highly charged lyricism ... the language ... sparse, staccato, pared down to a minimum.\" And pointed to \"its timeless, archetypal quality\" to \"the sense of an epic journey into the darkness of the western psyche ... One is reminded above all, in the tension between the aesthetic qualities of the writing and its political, historical and philosophical subject matter, of the work of Ezra Pound ... In the current political climate this is a book which may also be read as ... a plea to begin anew with a narrative that acknowledges the humility of our place within the universe and our responsibility to it.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 184861795X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848617957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d","brand":"Martin Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987203522815,"sku":"9781848617957","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7658f8d7-3ce0-4a80-9adf-6ed7a717a3e5.jpg?v=1683287576","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-country-without-names-martin-anderson-9781848617957","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}