Damnatio Memoriae: Erased from Memory

Barker, Sebastian

ISBN 10: 1900564092 ISBN 13: 9781900564090
Verlag: Enitharmon Pr, 2005
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"Damnatio Memoriae" opens with an autobiographical sequence of poems in which he evokes past and present loves, the urban landscape of London, and the hidden beauties of the Lea Valley. They are all occasions that point towards the reflections to come on the sacred dimension of love and the evil that arises when this dimension is lost. These reflections become a springboard into the main section of the book, in which Barker draws upon Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Ancient Near Eastern traditions to chart the search of the soul for faith in the face of cynicism, cruelty corruption, and despair. Damnatio Memoriae is in the highest European tradition of St John of the Cross or the 'terrible sonnets' of Gerard Manley Hopkins. It is a salutary reminder that we ignore our spiritual needs at our peril.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: After receiving an MA in Natural Science from Oxford University and an MA in English Literature from the University of East Anglia, Sebastian Barker worked as a carpenter, a fireman, and a cataloguer of Modern First Editions at Sotheby's. He then worked as a writer in residence in Berkshire and Lincolnshire, founded and directed literature festivals, and built a house in the Greek mountains. From 1988 to 1992 he was Chairman of The Poetry Society. He also worked for English P.E.N., the Nietzsche Society of Great Britain, and the English College Foundation in Prague.In the 1990s, Sebastian Barker published three works of poetry, Guarding the Border: Selected Poems (Enitharmon, 1992), The Dream of Intelligence (Littlewood Arc, 1992, a long poem based on Nietzsche's life and works), and The Hand in the Well (Enitharmon, 1996).A Hawthornden Fellow, he lives in Stamford Hill in northeast London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and in 2002 appointed successor of John Lehmann and Alan Ross as Editor of The London Magazine.

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Titel: Damnatio Memoriae: Erased from Memory
Verlag: Enitharmon Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
Einband: Paperback
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Verlag: Enitharmon Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1900564092 ISBN 13: 9781900564090
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