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Alice Oswald’s Memorial :: Poets and War
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War poetry and war poets. Contemporary war poems and commentary from around the world. Articles, Reviews and Notes. Alice Oswald’s Memorial. Bull; March 31st, 2013. Is not the greatest English-language war poem of modern times, I can hardly wait to discover a better one. The new American edition (Norton, 2012) includes a useful Afterword by Eavan Boland. Alice Oswald’s idea was simple but brilliant. Writers talk sometimes about encountering a work that they wish they had written themselves, and. So she s...
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Review: Expended Casings :: Poets and War
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War poetry and war poets. Contemporary war poems and commentary from around the world. Articles, Reviews and Notes. Bull; January 21st, 2013. Farrell’s reader might then expect carefully crafted and elegantly ironic poems like many of the best World War II work, but the poems in. Better evoke rondeaus, with their song-like structures, and Kipling ballads, with Farrell’s skillful use of demotic GI language and the grotesque humor of the military. Here is a former professor of language and literature who c...
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Notes on the paucity of contemporary war poetry :: Poets and War
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War poetry and war poets. Contemporary war poems and commentary from around the world. Articles, Reviews and Notes. Notes on the paucity of contemporary war poetry. By Leonore Wilson • March 9th, 2013. 8220;A poet is the first citizen of his country and for this very reason it is the duty. Of the poet to be concerned about the politics of his country.”. Few academic poets write about our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; few poets have been on the battlefield. Brian Turner (. What is their personal fall out?
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Review: Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I :: Poets and War
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War poetry and war poets. Contemporary war poems and commentary from around the world. Articles, Reviews and Notes. Review: Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War I. Bull; May 20th, 2015. The British soldier-poet Siegfried Sassoon exemplifies for me the way in which some war poets and other artists use formalism, specifically forms considered by many at the time to be passe. For Sassoon and some others, making sense of whatever chaos they are experiencing can only be accomplished R...
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Review: William Conelly’s Uncontested Grounds :: Poets and War
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War poetry and war poets. Contemporary war poems and commentary from around the world. Articles, Reviews and Notes. Review: William Conelly’s Uncontested Grounds. Bull; May 10th, 2015. William Conelly’s wonderful new poetry collection,. Able Muse Press, 2014), includes five war poems well worth our attention. Conelly is a veteran of the United States Air Force, although the war poems here come not from his personal experiences but from his imaginative understandings. Some of the other poems in this colle...
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Theodosian Walls :: Poets and War
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War poetry and war poets. Contemporary war poems and commentary from around the world. Articles, Reviews and Notes. By William Logan • March 13th, 2013. Cowering before Achilles and his bronze-breasted Greeks,. Troy’s sacred towers are not so sacred now,. Ground down to the mud of Hissarlik. The walls of Byzantium stand more or less intact,. Decorous yellow masonry decorated. With courses of red brick, like the veins of Vesalius. Four stooping towers are inherited by a fifth. The Turks were within. Willi...
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Qatar imprisons a poet :: Poets and War
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War poetry and war poets. Contemporary war poems and commentary from around the world. Articles, Reviews and Notes. Qatar imprisons a poet. Bull; January 26th, 2013. You can read a news account here. That al-Ajami recited his poem to a small group in his home in 2010, and that one person in the audience videotaped and posted the reading. Most Americans probably wonder what the fuss is all about, as we live in a country where poetry is seldom read, in part perhaps because we spend so many hours online ins...
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Call for a Civilian War Casualties Day :: Poets and War
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War poetry and war poets. Contemporary war poems and commentary from around the world. Articles, Reviews and Notes. Call for a Civilian War Casualties Day. Bull; May 12th, 2013. Poets and War is calling for communities to create an annual Civilian War Casualties Day. We need to spend a few moments away from celebrity news and mass entertainment to better understand how wars have inflicted enormous suffering on civilians. What activities would happen on Civilian War Casualties Day? While “casualties...
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Theatre | VIEW IN THE DARK
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VIEW IN THE DARK. An Online Theatre Journal. About “The Dark”. BACK TO NEW YORK: On THE FRONT PAGE, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. February 16, 2017. During the past year I’ve enjoyed two overnight hospital stays, my first since my tonsils were removed years ago. The shoulder and knee replacements were successful and relatively painless, but they were immobilizing enough to preclude major travels. When I … Continue reading →. A BREAK FOR A PLUG: The Comedy of Errors. February 14, 2017. July 29, 2016.
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Ken Watanabe | VIEW IN THE DARK
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VIEW IN THE DARK. An Online Theatre Journal. About “The Dark”. Tag Archives: Ken Watanabe. Lincoln Center’s Production of THE KING AND I. August 29, 2016. Last spring, after a long and mostly boring recovery from a January knee replacement, off I went on my customary biannual theatre binge in New York. I was eager to find plays that would be challenging, leave me excited, thinking, … Continue reading →. Light in the Piazza. Please make a comment. Join 59 other followers. About “The Dark”. VIEW IN THE DARK.
