After you were, I am
Ralphs, Camille2024
Book
Total copies: 1
The book's three sections - ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee - obsess over individual human characters and how our past informs (and informs on) our present. This extraordinary debut heralds the arrival of a major new talent.In After You Were, I Am, charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world. The book's three sections - ingenious rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee - obsess over individual human characters and how our past informs (and informs on) our present. Ralphs's style is utterly distinctive; she is a modern metaphysical, tapping into a haunting, era-spanning utterance enlivened by the electric pulse of wordplay and imaginative conceit. This is poetry that in comprehending the past manages to make of it something utterly original and contemporary.
Main title:
After you were, I am / Camille Ralphs.
Author:
Ralphs, Camille, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2024.
Collation:
72 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780571384853 (pbk)9780571384860 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
821.92
LC class:
PR6118.A4
Language:
English
BRN:
725873