Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
A Building Site |
An Autumn Wind, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2010 |
Not included in CP (see also note below) |
Relationship to Classical text Plato’s Cratylus 401-402 recounts Heraclitus' notions of constant flux.
Classical/post-Classical intertexts See the intertexts for 'Heraclitus on Rivers' (CP, p.114).
Comment The allusion to "perpetual change and flux" recalls Mahon's preoccupation with Heraclitan philosophy in earlier poems, such as 'Heraclitus on Rivers' (CP, p.114) and The Hudson Letter's 'IV: Waterfront' (CP, p.192-193). The demolition site is said to be a tabula rasa.
Note Also collected in New Collected Poems, Gallery Press, 2011, p.351-352