With grim humor and humorous grimness, "In Search of the Great Dead" engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame.The title poem of this collection records Richard Cecil's quest for the tombs of the famous dead. At first the search leads him on a tour of famous European tombstonesthe grave of Chateaubriand in St. Malo, the shared tomb of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Yeats's old Celtic cross in Sligobut gradually it expands into areas where all the tombs have been erased by time or vandalismthe tombs of Seneca and Lucan, and all of the great dead...
With grim humor and humorous grimness, "In Search of the Great Dead" engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame.The title poem of this collect...
Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in "Twenty First Century Blues, "the fourth collection from Richard Cecil.""Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson s corpse-eye-view of stony death, or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and dealing with English department politics, Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry. Deadpan and dark, yet pulsing with the spirit of life, these poems speak of historic France, Italy, and Switzerland, where...
Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in "Twenty First Century Blues, "the fourth collection from Richard Cecil.""Whether elegizing ...
