Slow War: Volume 40 (The Hugh Maclennan Poetry) - Softcover

Buch 40 von 85: Hugh MacLennan Poetry

Hertwig, Benjamin

 
9780773551428: Slow War: Volume 40 (The Hugh Maclennan Poetry)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0773551425 ISBN 13: 9780773551428
Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Benjamin Hertwig's debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Kevin Powers’s "Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting." A century after the First World War, Hertwig presents both the personal cost of war in poems such as "Somewhere in Flanders/Afghanistan" and "Food Habits of Coyotes, as Determined by Examination of Stomach Contents," and the potential for healing in unlikely places in "A Poem Is Not Guantánamo Bay." This collection provides no easy answers – Hertwig looks at the war in Afghanistan with the unflinching gaze of a soldier and the sustained attention of a poet. In his accounting of warfare and its difficult aftermath on the homefront, the personal becomes political. While these poems inhabit both experimental and traditional forms, the breakdown of language channels a descent into violence and an ascent into a future that no longer feels certain, where history and trauma are forever intertwined. Hertwig reminds us that remembering war is a political act and that writing about war is a way we remember.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Benjamin Hertwig is a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces, a painter, and a PhD student at the University of British Columbia whose writing has recently appeared on NPR, in the New York Times, and won a National Magazine Award in 2017.

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Verlag
McGill-Queen's University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0773551425
ISBN 13 
9780773551428
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
134
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