Crocodiles & Obelisks

by Jamie McKendrick

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Crocodiles and obelisks are ancient symbols of empire.The poems in Jamie McKendrick's astonishing new collection sift the debris of power and range from Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain to the Belgian Congo and to the Roman, the Austro-Hungarian and British empires.

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He called his condition

melancholia not depression, which made it sound
planetary rather than clinical

Unfaded
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and see their smiles again as
they once smiled

and their hair unfaded as it
was in life

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Music
DDC/MDS
821.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish Poetry1900-1900-19991945-1999
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PR6063 .C544 .C76Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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