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ONE HUNDRED VISIONS OF WAR IBD

WISEBLOOD BOOKS
11 / 2022
9781951319373
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Sinopsis

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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