A 17 page pamphlet, "Re-reading Lifris' Life of Saint Cadoc (c.1086)". According to the back cover these poems "interrogate how the presence of the past constructs a nearly hallucinatory sense of what it might mean to be Welsh". I'm struggling with the content and expression. Here's the start of "Prints"
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I'll raise, perhaps, a chap- el here for Finnian whose faith could harness forest harts and keep our book uninjured by the pelting |
The syllable count for all the lines of the poem is 6,8, 7,8, 6,8, 6,5, 6,5. I can't see much of a pattern there. Perhaps the idea of raising a chap is why the first line's broken. It's iambic, but some lines have more than 3 beats.
The final poem ends with a flurry of line-breaks - "The angel says I// must forgive you./ Enough for now.// May the land/ rise to meet/ you."
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