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Taking Mesopotamia

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781906188115 Author(s): Jenny Lewis Format: Paperback Year: 2014 Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd Dimensions: 137 x 10 x 216 (w x l x h) Pages: 94 Series: Oxford Poets

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Description: Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis's search for her lost father - the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, formal poems and free verse, the book extends into a wider exploration of the recent Iraq wars. It also includes translations of a number of the poems into Arabic, and photographs taken by Lewis's father on campaign in 1916. Woven throughout the book is a strand inspired by The Epic of Gilgamesh, whose themes of hubris, abuse of power and fear of death show us how little the world has changed in four thousand years.

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