Rhapsody and death in John Burnside’s ‘The Hunt in the Forest’

In his essay ‘Ars Nova’ (1962), Maurice Blanchot presents an argument against a certain kind of ‘order’ in poetics by claiming that: If the musician renounces with austere rigor the continuity of a unified work…, he does so not in order to deny all coherence or the value of form, or even to oppose the [...]