The Lost Ghosts of Lemnos

<p><strong>The Lost Ghosts of Lemnos is a mediation on the tragic and variously religious or metaphysical deep pasts of Greek Roman Chinese Japanese and Nordic poetries and fragments of poems or plays whose implicit voices are summoned to the present through the re-creations of memory not through translation but a dialogic free rendition of them making new poems from old ones. Among its reimagined voices are those of the Greek tragedians Horace a few of the earliest Chinese and Japanese poets and the lays and sagas of Northern Europe. </strong></p><p><strong>    But throughout the book maybe especially in those not directly rendered from re-imagined ancient writings all its poems brood on the enduring presence of the poetry of a long ago past in some of today's workings of poetic and historical memory in the ways memory strives to find itself not lost in the past but inspired by it while searching for itself for its own re-discoveries. It assumes that history in its movements is not inevitable not merely a fatality but is as well necessary for us to speak through to inhabit or to be lost in woods to be at sea again helpless wanderers over the earth without it.</strong></p><p></p>