Distant Mandate

A shimmering collection of poems that explores the tormented southern landscape and the imaginative landscapes of Western art In Distant Mandate , acclaimed poet Ange Mlinko moves between the arid and flooded scrublands of the American South and the mythical realms of Western art. Guided by her spiritual forbears—Orpheus, Mallarmé, Pound, Yeats, and others—Mlinko deftly places herself within the tradition of the poet in protest against the obduracy of the real. Taking its title from Laszló Krasz