{"product_id":"9780571339518-sleeping-lord","title":"The Sleeping Lord","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd Other Fragments\u003cbr\u003eJones's visionary collection of poems and fragments published in the months before his death, reissued in paperback with a cover based on the artist's original design.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Lord\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps the best introductory volume to Jones's work; the contours can be seen most clearly here, and the textures, though rich, are less elaborate than in \u003ci\u003eThe Anathemata\u003c\/i\u003e, since there is an open, dramatic quality running through the book.' Peter Scupham, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished months before David Jones's death in 1974, and modestly presented by the author himself as a collection of 'fragments', \u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Lord \u003c\/i\u003econtinued the exploration of themes begun by its predecessors \u003ci\u003eIn Parenthesis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Anathemata.\u003c\/i\u003e Set mainly in different parts of the Roman Empire, either in the Holy Land or on the Celtic fringes, animated by his Catholic faith and by his own experiences as a soldier, formidably erudite and of a visionary intensity, the book springs from a lifetime's concern with questions of history, culture and religion. Mysterious, musical and alive with a sense of the wilderness and the elements, the poems show the startling development of Jones's imagination in his later years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30323086426209,"sku":"9780571339518","price":15.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36396260_5c997b62-56e5-405d-a319-f68dd6a12d91.jpg?v=1759465882","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571339518-sleeping-lord","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}