THE WINDS OF ILION

THE WINDS OF ILION

STEVEN JOYCE

When Novalis declared that “the world must be romanticized,” that it must be restored to its plenary “meaning, magic, and mystery,” he, like Friedrich Schlegel touts the fragment as the vehicle of this restorative art.

The Winds of IIion is an eclectic work that brings together poetry, academic essay, personal memoir, short-short story, and creative fragments in a manner redolent both of the early German romantics and of the Greek concept of moira. The many different creative threads composing this work weave a fabric of variegated meanings whose scope extends to the disparate events and marginal circumstances both of literary and everyday life.


6×9” | B&W | 244 pp

ISBN 978-8792633026


 
 

CATEGORY

Theater and Drama

EDITION

Standard paperback 2011 | $19

NOTE

Heuristic and literary fragments


 
 

REVIEWS

The Winds of Ilion received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award that recognizes and supports Ohio artists whose completed body of work indicates “. . . creativity and imagination that exemplifies the highest level of achievement and advancement of the art form for a particular discipline.” The juried panel cited the layout of the work as well as the concept employing the fragment as both a literary and heuristic device.


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