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In the Wake of the DayJohn Ash![]() 10% off all versions
Categories: 21st Century
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (Pub. Jan 2010) 9781847770448 £9.95 £8.96 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jan 2010) 9781847779175 £9.95 £8.96 eBook (Kindle) (Pub. Jan 2010) 9781847779182 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have, or are prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
What are we to make of these fragments,
These hisses and whispers? Who were These people who were buried in uncounted chambers Hacked into the sheer side of a precipice, Which in their extinct language, they called ‘round’, Which it was not, great wall of sorrow and forgetting. They were perhaps undistinguished by the standards Of their time, producing no poets or philosophers Whose names history has recorded, but they lived. from ‘Pinara’
In the Wake of the Day is a book of memories and journeys; from the chaotic energy of urban life in modern Istanbul, where John Ash lives, to the ruins of vanished civilisations; from personal incident to the narratives and vacancies of cultures. Ash inhabits the fertile and ambiguous territory where East and West meet. We ‘know and do not know’ the past. In an ‘imperial city without empire, place of paradox’, time too becomes fluid. The ancient, half-imagined past of Ur, Alexandria, Cappadocia coexists with a contemporary world in which ‘tank tracks are driven over Babylon’.
At the centre of this collection are John Ash’s versions of poems by the great Alexandrian C.P. Cavafy. Working with Cavafy’s voice, Ash expresses his own urbane intelligence. Cover photograph: Beyoğlu Street, Istanbul © Dan Auger Cover design StephenRaw.com
Contents
The Couple Olives Unasked For Finding Prostanna In Jean Dubuffet’s Crimson Landscape Babylon Tristia Near the Euphrates Impossible Poem: ‘I never really wanted…’ Lines Written in a Hotel Room in Afyon The Cut Tramway Partial Explanation Practical Criticism Difficult The Towel of Alyattes The Result The Women of Kars (or Some Other Places I Know and Do Not Know) After Cavafy Without Memorial Fever of Kleitos The Battle of Magnesia Antiochus Epiphanes The Gods in their Wisdom In Ösroene Disillusionment of Demetrius Soter The Triumph of John Kantakouzenos Exiles A Byzantine Nobleman Writing in Exile In a Syrian Harbour The Bergamot Tree Pinara In the Wake of the Day Finding Prostanna (2) Two Poems with an Uncritical Apparatus Stations Prose for Ebubekir Akbulut The Antiochiad
Praise for John Ash
'A little querulous, perhaps? Never mind. This may be the most auspicious debut of its kind since Auden's.'
Carolyn Kizer
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