JUST RELEASED IN THE UK
After thirty-three years in the writing, my book-length prose poem, The Great Wheel, has been published in the U.K. by Squeeze Press.
$23.00
New York poet, Jerome Sala wrote: “Robert Wolf’s The Great Wheel proposes an audacious idea—that there is a rhythm to history, and that beneath its chaotic flow of events there is a song. To reveal this sublime music, the book modulates between biblical cadence and Poundian Canto. As the wheel of cosmic history turns, we learn the relationship between the inspiring and the mundane, the rational and the irrational—and a hero steps forth: the visionary imagination itself. If poetry is “news that stays news” as Ezra Pound once quipped, this is a very poetic work indeed.”—Jerome Sala, author of How Much? New & Selected Poems
The Great Wheel weaves together British myth, legend and history. From the founding of Britain by Brutus, the grandson of Aeneas, to the death of King Arthur, spirituality and war are threaded into a single epic strand.
This account traverses great historic and cosmic cycles; the destruction of Troy, the death of pagan gods and the founding and growth of Christianity. Joseph of Arimathea and Saint Alban share the pages with Julius and Claudius Caesar.
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