 [ Large Image ] | Dumuzi Christopher Patton 2020 / Canadian Poetry / $21.95 9781554472116 / Trade paper / 96 pp These poems do not merely retell the myth of Dumuzi, the Sumerian god of spring who, for a moment of casual disregard, is condemned to the underworld by his consort Inanna, Queen of Heaven, goddesss of love and war. While Dumuzi and Inanna preside here, the collection’s true protagonist is language itself, which Christopher Patton refracts as he pursues their stories through a kaleidoscope of poetic forms and practices. He reaches into the graphic realm as well: fragments of the myth become word grids recalling a sacred orchard, or images built up from the pattern on a scrap of security envelope lining. Mixing elegy, mischief, and experiment, Dumuzi exhumes the body of a god, only to find a rhizome dripping with linkages and metamorphoses. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Fast-Vanishing Speech Christopher Patton, Klara du Plessis, Lisa Fishman, Jim Johnstone 2024 / Literary Criticism Canadian Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554472727 / Trade paper / 48 pp |  | Slipsheets: An incidental printing of Gerald Manley Hopkin’s “Pied Beauty” Andrew Steeves, Christopher Patton 2023 / Poetry, Typography / $19.95 CAN 9781554472482 / Trade paper / 48 pp |  | Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book Christopher Patton 2018 / Poetry/Medieval, Literary Criticism / $29.95 CAN 9781554471751 / Trade paper / 208 pp |  | Curious Masonry Christopher Patton 2011 / Poetry / $15.95 CAN 9781554470938 / Trade paper / 48 pp |
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