{"product_id":"distant-mandate-poems-9780374248215","title":"Distant Mandate: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Distant Mandate  Ange Mlinko moves between the tormented southern landscape  with its alternately arid and flooded scrublands  and the imaginative landscapes of Western art. Guided by her spiritual forbearsOrpheus  Mallarm  Pound  Yeats  and othersMlinko deftly places herself within the tradition of the poet in protest against the obduracy of the real.  Mlinko takes the title from a piece by Laszl Krasznahorkai on the unknowable origins of the Alhambra  the monument for the sight of which there is only a distant mandate . . . one can see  in any event  the moment of creation of the world  of course all the while understanding nothing of it. This distant mandate  also the bitter ideal of Mallarm  is the foundation upon which all works of art are composedthe torment of eros and the intimation of war.  Myth is central to these poems; some are based on the story Cupid and Psyche  others serve as odes to Aphrodite or as explorations of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In Distant Mandate  Mlinko has given us a shimmering and vibrant collection  one that shows us not only how literature imagines itself through life but also how life reimagines itself through literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275879800885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374248214","price":98.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374248215.jpg?v=1780517737","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/distant-mandate-poems-9780374248215","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}