Ebook: Omnesia (alternative text)

Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Omnesia; 1 The South; Rumi Barks; Black Walnut; Looking Glass Falls; Dream Ironing; Pilgrim Street; 2 The Messages; The Messages; To Porridge; The Silvery Bridie; An e-pistle; Dichtung (Till Awa Wi It); Lament; The Fogbow; Cock of the North; Sealscreed; Stookie; The Shapka Ultimatum; End-Sang; Pilgrim Street; 3 Metanorth; For Bruno Schulz; The Ship of Łódź; The Glass Cathedral; The Lake in Druskininkai; Helsinki Syndrome; Ghost Lemons; Helsinki Syndrome; Pilgrim Street; 4 Muqam; Sonnet; The Black Hotel; Summer Palace.;Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality. For the past seven years Herbert has wandered from the Turkic west of China to the barrios of Venezuela; from Tomsk, the 'Athens of Siberia', to the heat of Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, an unacknowledged country. These are travels to translate and, in more than o.