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Religion

Beauty and Desolation

The Beast of Heaven by Victor Kelleher

by Yvonne Rousseau
February–March 1984, no. 58

The Beast of Heaven by Victor Kelleher

UQP, $10.00 pb, 205 pp

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The dawn and the evening of the world, alike, are seeding-grounds of myth and archetype: the distant past, when chthonic Ancestors are imagined to have emerged from a landscape of rocks and dust – the post-holocaust world of the future, where a landscape of rocks and dust is imagined to have emerged as fruit of hidden and poisonous seeds within the human psyche.

 


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The Beast of Heaven by Victor Kelleher

UQP, $10.00 pb, 205 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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