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Limbo - The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella is a long poem in thirty-four cantos, each accompanied by a sub-canto and a subscript, structured as a sustained meditation on suspension: ecological, political, spiritual, and creative. Positioning itself as a coda to Kinsella's earlier Divine Comedy, the work inhabits limbo not as a theological abstraction but as a condition of the present, a state of insufficient action and ongoing complicity, mapped onto the wheatbelt of Western Australia and its surrounding political realities. Illegal land-clearing, mining extraction, colonial inheritance, and the failures of capitalist liberal conscience run through the cantos alongside close attention to birdlife, reptiles, insects, and the seasonal rhythms of a specific place. Throughout, Kinsella refuses consolation or resolution, maintaining a voice that is self-implicating, politically alert, and formally undeceived about poetry's limits and its necessity.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Kinsella, John
- ISBN: 9781917617833
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.50 x 0.38
- Number Of Pages: 166
- Publication Year: 2026
Language:
English