Terra Terra

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Beginning with a pair of elegies for the Chicano poet Alfred Arteaga, the three sequences making up terra terra speak to the loss and displacement of our times and the long history of colonial violence that has occasioned them. Drawing in part on the Tristia, the Roman poet Ovid’s lament for his colonial exile on the frontiers of the Roman imperium, the poems open out on the still unfinished business of empire from Ireland to Afghanistan and from the Mediterranean to the Pacific. The chorus of their many voices sings of lament, persistence and resistance.

Photos by the author.

Beginning with a pair of elegies for the Chicano poet Alfred Arteaga, the three sequences making up terra terra speak to the loss and displacement of our times and the long history of colonial violence that has occasioned them. Drawing in part on the Tristia, the Roman poet Ovid’s lament for his colonial exile on the frontiers of the Roman imperium, the poems open out on the still unfinished business of empire from Ireland to Afghanistan and from the Mediterranean to the Pacific. The chorus of their many voices sings of lament, persistence and resistance.

Photos by the author.

About the Author

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David Lloyd

David Lloyd is an Irish-born poet, playwright and critic currently living in Los Angeles. Among his books of poetry are Arc & Sill: Poems, 1979-2009 (Shearsman, 2012) and The Harm Fields (Georgia Review Books, 2022), as well as two chapbooks, Terra Terra (2022) and Furrow Archive (2020) from Magra Books. In 2025, The Press, Shelter and the Pact: Three Playsappeared from Three Count Pour in Chicago. His most recent critical books include Beckett’s Thing: Painting and Theatre (Edinburgh U. Press, 2016) and Counterpoetics of Modernity: On Irish Poetry and Modernism(Edinburgh, 2022). Lloyd is a professor emeritus of English at the U. of California, Riverside.

David Lloyd is a writer and critic, born in Ireland and currently living in Los Angeles. Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 (2012) collected his new and selected poetry. Bar Null will appear with SoundEye Books in 2019. A bilingual French/English edition of his play, The Press/Le Placard was published by the Nouvelles Scènes series, Presses Universitaires du Midi, in 2018. He is the editor of the chapbook series Cusp Books. David Lloyd’s previous chapbook from Magra, Furrow Archive, appeared in 2019.