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Alas

Alas


en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mai 2027
Alas is a tour-de-force of writing and imagination, called into being by the discovery of a group of bones in a long-buried well in Norwich, England, evidence of a pogrom inflicted on the town's Jewish population in medieval times. Joanne Limburg imagines the bones calling her to tell their stories, prompting her to explore the complex relationship between her ancestral past and her lived present. This takes her across time, from contemporary Britain back to the Europe of the Crusades and forward to the 1905 Aliens Act; across borders, from the birthplace of one grandmother in Ukraine to the other's in Norwich, from the Pale of Settlement to the Port of Grimsby, and from Babylon to Bethnal Green in London. The scale of the enquiry is also constantly shifting, taking in both the microscopic barleytwists of a genome and the nightmarish cycles of history which have come to shape them.

Using the acrostic form of the Hebrew Book of Lamentations as a twenty-two-line template, Limburg brings her own voice into dialogue with two very different choruses, one made up of collaged lines taken from texts by gentiles on Jews, and the other imagined as the collective voice of the Bones, who understand that mourning should always come with self-examination, and that any given distance 'must be measured before it can be felt'.

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ISBN-13: 9781780378060
ISBN-10: 1780378068
Editura: Bloodaxe Books

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Joanne Limburg was born in 1970 in London. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1998 and published her first collection, Femenismo, with Bloodaxe in 2000. Since then, there have been two further collections: Paraphernalia (2007), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and The Autistic Alice (2017). Her fourth book of poetry, the sequence Alas, is published by Bloodaxe in 2027. Her other work includes the non-fiction books The Woman Who Thought Too Much, Small Pieces and Letters to My Weird Sisters, as well as the novel A Want of Kindness, all of which have been published by Atlantic Books. She has also produced a collection of poetry for children, Bookside Down, with Salt Publishing.