A lively collection populated by historical icons, each poem a story about the potency of imagination, territories, border-crossings of the mind \u2013 among them: the madness of a king who wants to be a swan, Michelangelo chiselling a heart that beats into his David, Tsar Peter with his three pet dwarfs acting as generals in the army, Vera Zasulich who became the world\u2019s first woman terrorist, Robinson Crusoe hunting for the footprints of Friday, Michael Jackson pretending he is Marcel Marceau as he woos Marlene Dietrich in Paris\u2026<\/p>\n

Includes nine section-illustrations of historical figures by Nina Bunjevac.<\/p>\n

Introduction by Edward Kay.<\/p>\n

2015 \u2022 4.75 x 7 inches \u2022 PB 216 pages \u2022 \u200e <\/span> 9781550965599<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[313,586],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6303","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-poetry","product_cat-cultural-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}