Hydrologos (Paperback)


Hydrologos is one long poem composed in five suites and a coda, and spoken through masks. It is a poem about a specific passion, the one that always follows love: sorrow. At the poem's centre is the original lyric elegy, the myth of Orpheus, but re-imagined from the perspective of Eurydike. What happens to a human being under the geologic pressure of passion? -- One calls out, and the world's response is silence. The work of sorrowing, one learns, is the work -- the endless work -- of listening, by which the listener is changed.

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Hydrologos is one long poem composed in five suites and a coda, and spoken through masks. It is a poem about a specific passion, the one that always follows love: sorrow. At the poem's centre is the original lyric elegy, the myth of Orpheus, but re-imagined from the perspective of Eurydike. What happens to a human being under the geologic pressure of passion? -- One calls out, and the world's response is silence. The work of sorrowing, one learns, is the work -- the endless work -- of listening, by which the listener is changed.

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Imprint

Pedlar Press

Country of origin

Canada

Release date

October 2011

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First published

October 2011

Authors

Editors

Dimensions

213 x 137 x 8mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

109

ISBN-13

978-1-897141-43-4

Barcode

9781897141434

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LSN

1-897141-43-2



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