FAME

by Kevin McGrath

Overview

Fame is a book about human affection and disaffection and the unique narrative which presents this perpetual movement. The poems come from India, Greece, the Windward Islands, and New England, places whose landscapes have informed the metaphors of this work. Love being itself the only metaphor that allows us to apprehend our true freedom in this world, enabling us to give more than we receive so that our aim be true. Fame is a sign of this transcendental knowledge and experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781955194136
Publisher:	Saint Julian Press, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	253
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Kevin McGrath was born in southern China in 1951 and was educated in England and Scotland; he has lived and worked in France, Greece, and India. Presently he is an Associate of the Department of South Asian Studies and Poet Laureate at Lowell House, Harvard University. McGrath lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his family.

 

Publications include, Fame (1995); Lioness (1998); The Sanskrit Hero (2004); 

Flyer (2005); Comedia (2008); Stri (2009); Jaya (2011); Supernature (2012); 

Eroica, and Heroic Krsna (2013); In the Kacch, and Windward (2015); 

Arjuna Pandava, and Eros (2016); Raja Yudhisthira (2017); 

Bhisma Devavrata (2018); Vyasa Redux (2019); Song Of The Republic (2020); 

and On Friendship, and Causality In Homeric Song (forthcoming, 2023).

Read an Excerpt

FOREWORD

Fame in this book does not concern a quality received or acquired but an understanding of how the kosmos functions, an active mental awareness of how it is that the universe occurs in terms of metaphor. For if there is only one narrative in this world—one book and all works of art attempt to emulate or imitate that pattern—then it is the work of poetry to pursue that ideal sonority, integrity, and radiance. No one comes as close to an appreciation of fame as the youthful Achilles with his unspeakable grief.