The King's Question

Download or read book The King's Question written by Brian Culhane and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In The King's Question, poet Brian Culhane gathers the sometimes broken monuments of the long dead to describe how the ancient world impinges on the modern. So the Elgin Marbles prefigure the trench warfare of World War I; the lost Library of Alexandria mirrors the loss of the poet's father's library; and the Delphic oracle summons the murmur of a psychotherapist. With skilled formal craft and a daring intelligence, Culhane's poems show the mind profoundly grappling to articulate the right questions, while the gods, as always, deny any certitude."--BOOK JACKET.