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One Hundred Visions of War
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.00
ISBN13: 9781951319373
Publisher: Wiseblood Books
Published: Nov 7 2022
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The One Hundred Visions of War of Julien Vocance (1878-1954) comprise some of the first haiku written in the West. Where classical Japanese haiku traditionally speaks of the beauty of Nature, Vocance uses the form to a very different purpose, depicting the horror and brutality of armed conflict, as seen from the trenches during the First World War. Readers get a ground-level view of unimaginable slaughter. The value of Vocance's poetry lies in its witness to the experience of the human being caught up in a battle which, as Wendell Berry put it, the machines won. Only imagine: an obscure soldier-poet pits his human art against overwhelming military technology, and his art survives.
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