Publication

2014 - Nightboat Books, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

46,750 words, Guess

Page Count

187 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivedrift0000berg
  • ISBN-139781937658205
  • ISBN-101937658201
  • OCLC Control Number862788144
  • Better World Books9781937658205
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Classifications

  • DDC821/.914
  • LCCPR6052.E574 D75 2014
  • LCCPR6052.E574

Description

Caroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today's sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, "Drift," which takes the anonymous 10th century Anglo-Saxon quest poem The Seafarer as its inspiration. Both ancient and contemporary tales of travel and exile shadow the plight and losses of wanderers across the waters in this haunting new book.

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