Tuesday, April 15, 2008

News at Eleven: Though he is keen on the exotic--

and the poem is packed with wonderfully vivid and elaborate descriptions, sometimes reminiscent of Byron, sometimes of Borges, of fabulous beasts and landscapes and great Eastern warlords and potentates--[Matthew] Francis's Mandeville is obsessed by how the world keeps changing shape and texture, how his descriptions of things teach him strange lessons.

from The Guardian: Simply fantastic

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