{"product_id":"anti-basilisk-1857547896","title":"Anti-basilisk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1857547896\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Middleton, Christopher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Anti-Basilisk Christopher Middleton, in the spirit that impelled Shelley to write The Masque of Anarchy, reveals as crooked the apparently straight and sees what's coming round corners with a clarity that dazzles. Bruno Schulz in 1937 made an observation that might stand as epigraph to this collection: 'Thrones wilt when they are not fed with blood, their vitality grows with the mass of wrongs committed, with life-denials, with the crushing of all that is perpetually different and that has been ousted by them.' Certain dilemmas in such a prospect are implicit in the shady figures of 'Saul Pinkard' and 'Doctor Dark'. The Basilisk of the title is a sort of monster, all ego, atavistic and implacable. The poems fall into five sections, the first and fourth twenty-poem panoramas, the fifth a gathering of translations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67945534685472,"sku":"NEW1857547896","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/31CGqfcGUQL.jpg?v=1792803503","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/en-gb\/products\/anti-basilisk-1857547896","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}