To the House of Collateral Damage
Centuries of the Civilian Dead
$31.13
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
This incredibly ambitious, book-length poem takes on the modern problem of war. The poem’s great achievement is that it situates our own age, not as a golden age, but as one notable for its harshness and brutality, especially towards noncombatants, as well as for the beauty of the language that can be found to describe and understand that brutality, and perhaps to change it. Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid allow us, two and a half millennia later, to experience the complexity and contradict…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583228593 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583228594 |
| Author: | William La Riche |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 219g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 139mm |
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”‘Beauty will save the world,’ said Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quoting Dostoyevsky. William La Riche’s poem is a fragment of just such life-giving beauty: timely, timeless, formidable, tender. Soaring and descending. Unlike any other work I know; and, once known, unforgettable.” –Shirley Hazzard
“I am forever indebted to William La Riche. He has given us a profound meditation on life and death. A poetic history of our time, for all time.” –Howard Zinn
About The Author
William La Riche
WILLIAM LA RICHE was a Fulbright Scholar and has lectured at New York University and Princeton University in art and architecture over the years. His previous book Alexandria: The Sunken City is about the largest underwater excavation of all time. He lives in New York City.
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