Prospect of Release — Mandel '71 Lanyards & Key Tags fully illustrated

fully illustrated

a Chronology of Apartheid in South Africa

Published by the Bowdoin College Museum  of Art and DelMonico Books•Prestel

They mapped extraterrestrial terrain

Introduced by Maine poet laureate Wesley McNair

Prospect of Release — Mandel '71 Lanyards & Key Tags fully illustratedBy Tom Mandel, Class of 1971 These 50 poems, 700 lines (neither number divisible by three), confront self, other, identity, loss, history, language and meaning through the most concrete instance we have of what poststructuralists call "an absent presence" the death of a parent. This loss of apparent meaning (who gave you your name?) doubles (this father arrived by marriage, already a rhyme for the dead blood kin that came before), invoking tradition,