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A Modern Bestiary - Ars Poetastrica
A Modern Bestiary - Ars Poetastrica

A Modern Bestiary - Ars Poetastrica

POETRY

108 Pages, 5.1 x 7.6

Cloth, $17.95 (US $17.95) (CA $19.95)

Publication Date: August 2005

ISBN 9781843917779

Rights: US, CA, AU & NZ

Hesperus Press (Aug 2005)

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Overview

A collection of 16 sonnets about humans who are transformed into beasts (both real and imaginary), and vice versa, A Modern Bestiary is a new interpretation of the old bestiary tradition, which has fascinated generations of readers and writers alike, from the Middle Ages through to the Modern Age. A fierce invective against modern poetasters and bad poetry in general, Ars Poetastrica does not pretend to be a collection of precepts on good writing, but rather an impassioned exhortation towards a new Humanism in poetry. Alessandro Gallenzi lives and works in London, where he runs Hesperus Press, a small independent publisher devoted to the rediscovery of lesser-known works by the greatest European and American authors.

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