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The Book of Judas: A Poem by Brendan Kennelly
by Brendan Kennelly
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd (1992-07)
ISBN: 1852241713
EAN: 9781852241711
Dewy Decimal #: 821.914
Paperback: 400 pages
SKU: BA08033011
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Second Impression 1992. Ex Library copy with usual stamps and stickers. Book is bound strong, has little wear and text is clean and unmarked.
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An Epic Poem in 12 Parts
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-08-06
From Back Cover:
"In 'The Book of Judas,' an epic poem in twelve parts, Kennelly lets Judas, the eternal traitor and scapegoat, who is not merely lost but unredeemable, speak, dream and murmur in all his voices - of past and present, history and myth, good and evil, men, women and children, and moneymoneymoney - until we realize that the damned outcast, the unspeakable perpetrator of the apparently unthinkable, in penetrating the icy reaches of his own world, becomes a sly, many-voiced crick of ours.
In this poem we meet a Judas who is severed and articulate, cold and fiery, ancient and contemporary, an essential part of our culture, and of each one of us, skilled in the necessary, appalling art of judging each other."
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