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May 31, 2010 14:46

"The bulk of the book is a long, narrative poem. The Romantic poets Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge conceived a plan to found a Pantisocratic (egalitarian) community in America; the plan came to nothing, but Muldoon imagines what would have happened if they had gone ahead. Encounters with North American Indians are mingled with political ( Read more... )

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jacinthsong May 31 2010, 14:49:45 UTC
Do I just lose all credibility I ever had for giggling at the word 'Pantisocracy'?

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liminereid May 31 2010, 17:28:35 UTC
What IS THIS BOOK???

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me_ves_y_sufres May 31 2010, 17:29:53 UTC
Madoc: A Mystery by Paul Muldoon. It's an epic poem. It sounds like the GREATEST THING EVER, personally.

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necaris May 31 2010, 22:59:49 UTC
Yeah it sounds pretty damn awesome -- where can one acquire such?

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proskynesis May 31 2010, 17:36:55 UTC
WHAT.

This sounds... amazing.

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