The Tree of Idleness
Durrell, Lawrence150 USD
Date
1955
Category
Poetry
Description
First edition.
Durrell lived in the Cypriot village of Bellapais in the 1950s, and took the title of this poetry collection from folklore about an ancient mulberry tree south of the village abbey: “legend said that if you sat under its rambling, gnarled branches, you would be seized by the spirit of pure idleness” (MacNiven, 390).
Excerpt
Perhaps a single pining mandolin
Throbs where cicadas have quarried
To the heart of all misgivings and there
Scratches on silence like a pet locked in.
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