On the Governing of Empires

By Alasdair Paterson

Finding Kristallnacht in an optician's chart, flushing heresy from a Michelin guide, procuring princesses courtesy of furnishings catalogues and constructing a guided tour of Bedlam from the names of British moths, Alasdair Paterson brings a Byzantine range of techniques - cut-and-mosaic, palimpsest dialectic, diplomatic transplant and induced mutation - to a series of innocent texts, most without a prior thought of poetry in their heads, to build an indispensible vademecum for the imperially and post-imperially inclined.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848611161
• ISBN13: 9781848611160
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"