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Vox Angelica. Timothy Liu

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  • Тип: Текст
  • Автор: Timothy Liu
  • Издательство: Ingram(2020)
  • ISBN: 9781948579940
  • Язык: Английский
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In Liu's text the ascent, the ecstatic apprehension of the divine (he is a religious poet, there are no two ways about it, though perhaps there are twenty) can be effected only by a demonic insistence upon abjection, upon the descent. He shrives himself, and his poems show the marks of the lash–they are the lash–and his vision is naturalized to a degree that would astonish his predecessors, that astonishes us. This is a shocking poetry, and the shock is not of recognition, but of estrangement. It makes an unfamiliar claim upon us, the claim of apostasy. –Richard Howard, from the forward

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