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The Mirror Wall
by Richard Murphy
"Reading, one enters an exotic world…. Murphy's writing renders it with vivid clarity, and agile nuances of tone…." Andrew Waterman, PN Review
On a remote fortress in Sri Lanka is a long wall of polished plaster, with mysterious golden women painted on the rock above. Twenty of these frescoes have survived since the fifth century. This wall, the Mirror Wall, is covered with graffiti: hundreds of songs relating to these cloud nymphs written during the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
Richard Murphy's poems were inspired by the songs of the Mirror Wall.
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