To change the present, we must change the past. This is the central message of Moriarty’s Dreamtime, a radical experience of a book. The work draws on the aboriginal Australian idea of the Dreamtime, a time in the deep past when the gods walked the earth and dreamed all we experience into reality. We must do that again, Moriarty claims. And so, weaving together retellings of stories from Ancient Ireland, Greek myths, modern science, and Hindu scriptures, the poet aims to re-invent the heritage of the West. In re-dreaming our world and time, perhaps we will see in ourselves the way out of ecological, social, and spiritual darkness.
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