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One Hundred Visions of War

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Availability:In StockContributor:Julien Vocance, Alfred Nicol (Translator), Dana Gioia (Preface by)Publish date:2022-11-07Pages:122
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiseblood BooksISBN-13:9781951319373ISBN-10:1951319370UPC:9781951319373Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Haiku, EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.26 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SC8BAWWR1V

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.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Wiseblood BooksISBN-13:9781951319373ISBN-10:1951319370UPC:9781951319373Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Haiku, EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.26 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SC8BAWWR1V
Publisher: Wiseblood Books

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