Take Me Home to Pringus - Selected Poetry of Zyskandar A. Jaimot (Paperback)


""She said: I WANT TO TAKE YOU HOME TO PRINGUS / Wherever that is in the galaxy / or perhaps it materializes / only in those possessed / by a symphonic poem of "Homecoming" "" Whereas the speaker of these lines is reported by the poet to be drunk, surely we may read into this drunkenness, aside from an appeal to the realism of modern poetry, a metaphor also for divine intoxication. These highly charged lines in Mr. Jaimot's stupendous title-poem bring to mind the brilliance and beauty of Dante's Inferno when Beatrice makes an apparition to Virgil in Hell. They evoke also something of the profoundly-moving simplicity of the poetry of "homecoming" in Homer's Odyssey. One hundred per cent a modernist in style and temper, Mr. Jaimot, like T. S. Eliot, is keenly aware of roots and likewise embraces traditional values. May his poetry resonate chords in the innermost depths of many a searching spirit . "" Joe Ruggier (editor & publisher)

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""She said: I WANT TO TAKE YOU HOME TO PRINGUS / Wherever that is in the galaxy / or perhaps it materializes / only in those possessed / by a symphonic poem of "Homecoming" "" Whereas the speaker of these lines is reported by the poet to be drunk, surely we may read into this drunkenness, aside from an appeal to the realism of modern poetry, a metaphor also for divine intoxication. These highly charged lines in Mr. Jaimot's stupendous title-poem bring to mind the brilliance and beauty of Dante's Inferno when Beatrice makes an apparition to Virgil in Hell. They evoke also something of the profoundly-moving simplicity of the poetry of "homecoming" in Homer's Odyssey. One hundred per cent a modernist in style and temper, Mr. Jaimot, like T. S. Eliot, is keenly aware of roots and likewise embraces traditional values. May his poetry resonate chords in the innermost depths of many a searching spirit . "" Joe Ruggier (editor & publisher)

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Imprint

Multicultural Books

Country of origin

United States

Series

Mbooks Poetry

Release date

February 2006

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First published

February 2006

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Dimensions

216 x 140 x 8mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

122

ISBN-13

978-1-897303-00-9

Barcode

9781897303009

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LSN

1-897303-00-9



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