Mnemosyne

With Mnemosyne, David Brazil has achieved an extraordinary feat of anamnesis, one in which personal remembrance is interfused with historical, philosophical, and poetic memory writ large. The capaciously syncretic music of the poem accretes from a disparate host of hieratic and demotic root notes—though the ultimate resonance is unmistakably Christological. Part lament, part prayer, part vision, Mnemosyne is a brilliant and lachrymatory epic for the time that remains.