โ Scribed by Ange Mlinko
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In Distant Mandate , Ange Mlinko moves between the tormented southern landscape, with its alternately arid and flooded scrublands, and the imaginative landscapes of Western art. Guided by her spiritual forbears--Orpheus, Mallarmรฉ, Pound, Yeats, and others--Mlinko deftly places herself within the tradition of the poet in protest against the obduracy of the real.
Mlinko takes the title from a piece by Laszlรณ Krasznahorkhai on the unknowable origins of the Alhambra, the monument "for the sight of which there is only a distant mandate . . . [one] can see, in any event, the moment of creation of the world, of course all the while understanding nothing of it." This distant mandate, also the "bitter ideal" of Mallarmรฉ, is the foundation upon which all works of art are composed--the torment of eros and the intimation of war.
Myth is central to these poems; some are based on the story Cupid and Psyche, others serve as odes to Aphrodite or as explorations...
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