Anxiety in Mosaic

INTRODUCTION

v INTRODUCTION Anxiety In Mosaic consists of a long poem; “Under The Prawn’s Carapace” and a several shorter poems. These latter are grouped under a number of thematic sub-headings. Rich in its diversity of subject matter as well as in its philosophical decrying of certain insidious global social ills, the volume encapsulates socio-economic, governmental, historical, religio-moral, environmental and gender or feminist issues. In this vein therefore, concerns of personal bearing to the poet, the predominant ills that ravage a nation, the sinister notions that characterize the history of an entire continent as well as those that humanity as a whole face are all thrown in the mix of the numerous worrying issues raised in this seemingly compendious work of art to which there certainly couldn’t have been a more befitting title. Otherwise put, the volume’s concerns span realms which not only bear on the person of the poet but include nation, continent and the entire world. The long poem is essentially the bludgeoning, in lament, of a society in the process of being savaged to socio-economic and political rubble by the wanton, unbridled practice of esurience and human material surfeit. Language is employed in a particularly volatile manner to tell, so very despairingly, of a system in ruinous hopelessness and deprivation. But a last, even in the midst of such hopelessness, there is the lurking possibility, nevertheless, of salvation for the system; a salvation whose attainment could be made less troublesome by the adoption of altruistic and, most especially, divinely-inspired ways. N.M vi ...