Poetry. In this 4th volume of ARTHUR DIES, the literary, experimental
and multilingual excitement ramps up several notches, including several
pages of visual guides and visual poetry. The great Merlin shows up,
wearing a plague mask, and there are hints that Arthur himself may be on
the verge of being born; is it true?! This is not just a re-telling of a
famous legend/history, but a re-imagining and re-creating of a
story/myth that encompasses all of history and all of human imagination.
About an earlier volume of Lindsann's epic project, Ivan Arguelles said:
'This is in fact an epic both in the traditional sense of the word, and
in the approach of an anti-poetics perspective of what can be undone in
that tradition. In its sweeping texts and contexts it embodies not only
the imagined or fictive culture of the twilight era alluded to, but
those of our own post-modern and failed civilization with all its
cultural and literary -isms that have arisen from an original
'avant-garde.' Lindsann combines the mythical Avalon with Blake's
Albion, pursuing these emblematic nomenclatures to their illogical
fusion in an always enigmatic concatenation of events and personages
flung about in a supreme and deft literary whirl.' This new volume is
enriched with four appendices, which provide a narrative synopsis of the
previous volumes, a list of principal characters, a social glossary, and
a list of sources. All of which are extremely useful for following the
development of this incredible epic anti-poem, a work which redefines
both poetry and epic.--John M. Bennett
