Synopses & Reviews
'Astonishingly fecund and inventive. The New Arcadiarevitalizes pastoral traditions, but more in the mode of lamentation than celebration. Like Frost"s New Hampshire and Vermont, Kinsella"s Western Australia is eroded, a last act salted with the ruins of our age, and yet yielding permanent poems."Harold Bloom
Synopsis
"Astonishingly fecund and inventive. revitalizes pastoral traditions, but more in the mode of lamentation than celebration. Like Frost's New Hampshire and Vermont, Kinsella's Western Australia is eroded, a last act salted with the ruins of our age, and yet yielding permanent poems."--Harold Bloom
Synopsis
One of Australia's best poets conjures the Australian countryside in this brilliant epic, inspired by Philip Sidney's classic pastoral "Arcadia."
About the Author
John Kinsella is a poet, novelist, critic, and editor. The author of more than forty books, he is the international editor of the Kenyon Review and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and lives in Western Australia.