Formally inventive and intricately composed, Ast???ronymes is a book of redactions - and an elegy for places and people that have been ruined by time, erosion or neglect. Ast???ronyme, n. (French). A sequence of asterisks used to hide a name or password. In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut, The Shipwrecked House (Guardian First Book Award longlisted), Anglo-Breton poet Claire Tr???vien takes us to a place where ancient stone circles collide with the language of the internet. Tr???vien becomes curator of imaginary ...
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Formally inventive and intricately composed, Ast???ronymes is a book of redactions - and an elegy for places and people that have been ruined by time, erosion or neglect. Ast???ronyme, n. (French). A sequence of asterisks used to hide a name or password. In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut, The Shipwrecked House (Guardian First Book Award longlisted), Anglo-Breton poet Claire Tr???vien takes us to a place where ancient stone circles collide with the language of the internet. Tr???vien becomes curator of imaginary museums, indexing objects and histories with a quixotic energy. The stunning central sequence recounts a journey across the Scottish island of Arran, where myths are carved into remote caves and a mountain hides behind a 'froufrou of gas'.
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