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The tree of the doves : ceremony, expedition, war / Christopher Merrill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merrill, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terror--Social aspects.
- Terror.
- Terror--History.
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using several ageless questions??Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?"?as his point of departure, award-winning poet Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of terror, modernity, tradition, and epochal transformation. In three extended essays, Merrill observes the performance of a banned ritual in the Malaysian province of Kelatan; traces Saint-John Perse's epic voyage from Beijing to Ulan Bator in 1921, and relates it to the China of today; and embarks on a trip across the Levant in 2007 in the wake of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Merrill ass
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Ceremony
- pt. 2. Expedition
- pt. 3. War.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613287021
- 9781283287029
- 1283287021
- 9781571318404
- 1571318402
- OCLC:
- 759159595
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