This collection of poetry is a sequence of 77 sonnets, written in alexandrines, that takes the reader through revolutionary France and Ireland to imperial Japan. The poppy recurs as an emblem of peace and the opium wars, and a fractured vision of an ideal republic gradually emerges.
- ISBN10 0916390853
- ISBN13 9780916390853
- Publish Date 1 October 1998
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Wake Forest University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 91
- Language English