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In the Empire of Chimeras

In the Empire of Chimeras

Martin Anderson

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Shearsman Books
Año de edición:
2018
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781848616165
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Through these poems set within a major south east Asian city Anderson weaves, against the rotting entablatures of monumental imperial ambition, slowly degraded aspirations of native and non-native inhabitant.

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