Ellen Hinsey’s new book-length sequence, The Illegal Age, is a powerful investigation into the twentieth-century’s dark legacy of totalitarianism and the rise of political illegality. It explores the enduring potential for human beings to set neighbour against neighbour and commit final acts of violence.
A book of lyrical reflection and prophesy, The Illegal Age chronicles the arrival of a new, disquieting reality unfolding in our midst.
As Marilyn Hacker has written, “In dialogue with Celan, Szymborska, Milosz… this is a daring text – for its political acuity, and for its demonstration of the power in poetry to recount, remember, move the heart while opening the mind.”
Written in parallel with her first-hand research into the rise of authoritarianism carried out over the last decade, Hinsey''s volume warns that – rather than an “Age of Anxiety” – we may indeed be facing the start of the “Illegal Age”.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
120 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Arc Publications |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2018-09-10 |
| ISBN |
9781911469377 |
