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Red Head A Reparation for Cruelty: Poems of the Unknown Soldier

Red Head A Reparation for Cruelty: Poems of the Unknown Soldier

Reiff, Ae

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0982342136
ISBN13: 9780982342138
Publisher: Newfoundland Books
Published: Sep 11 2022
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.17 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
What are we to do with the hundred millioned victims of war? Red Head: A Reparation for Cruelty (2022) reimagines the ancient bardic tradition of Taliesin through a modern lens of redemption, and renewal. Echoes of early Welsh heroic poetry like Y Gododdin (Aneirin's elegy for warriors fallen at Catraeth), these poems of the unknown soldier-anonymous voices rising from battlefields both historical and metaphysical --open with vivid battlefield scenes of fallen warriors as a metaphor for sacrifice and resurrection. Poems such as Barley Feed, Red Head, Field, and Song evoke the catastrophic defeat at Catraeth, with lines like Only three have returned from the battle's rage mirroring the sparse survivors in ancient accounts. Yet elegy transforms into reparation: The red flower symbolizes the perennial return of life from death..Deeper in, celebrations of creation-Angel Standing in the Sun, The Branch, The Green Tree, rooted in eternal streams, counter winter's frost of war. Rivers over stones, blooming hearts, planetary conjunctions, biblical allusions (Proverbs' Wisdom, Paradise Lost's amaranth) with later pieces like Nightingale (a Spenserian stanza epic of love, underworld descent, and Persephone-like renewal) and Banquet of God (a prophetic vision of apocalyptic judgment and feast) add a richly allusive myth..

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