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Fate, stillness, travel, will, and the deep bruise of individual history as it becomes political history all shape David Axelrod’s classic book, originally published in 2005. In a language extraordinarily lean and fresh, Axelrod shows what it would be like to be truly alive to the nuance of events, structures, and the declarations of those who are in or out of power. This is an unusual and moving book.
Fate, stillness, travel, will, and the deep bruise of individual history as it becomes political history all shape David Axelrod’s classic book, originally published in 2005. In a language extraordinarily lean and fresh, Axelrod shows what it would be like to be truly alive to the nuance of events, structures, and the declarations of those who are in or out of power. This is an unusual and moving book.
“‘Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?’ Keats asked in a letter to his family. David Axelrod in The Cartographer’s Melancholy maps that pilgrimage. He follows the refugee road with its transcendence, resignation, and dark dramatic histories, and within each poem he makes the important discoveries, the ones that counterpoise suffering against the world’s beauty.”–Sandra Alcosser
“Like exposures at an archeological dig, ‘holy site piled upon / wreckage of holy site,’ history presents us simultaneously with both the miraculous and the annihilated. Many poets would leave us here, defined by our ethical absence, our greatest failures. Instead, Axelrod points us toward the power of individual gesture: of walking in old forest, of giving and receiving, of gathering together. Fearless, his poems enter the dark soul of American Empire and come back speaking the language of light.”–Richard Robbins
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