Adam's Dream
By Peter McDonald.
Description
In Adam's Dream, his second book of poems, Peter McDonald combines bold experiments in imagining the past with the kinds of formal control and invention which have marked his previous work. The ambitions and trials of the eighteenth-century Scottish architect Robert Adam feature alongside rewritings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Victorian fantasies and accounts of strange business in a modern Argentinian mausoleum.Throughout the book, in both the shorter poems and the longer pieces of dramatic monologue, as well as in the closing sequence of sonnets, McDonald dwells on subtle and tr...
ISBN(s)
1852243333, 9781852243333
