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Titre:
Slow war
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Sommaire:
"Benjamin Hertwig's debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Kevin Powers's "Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting." A century⛛ More...
Date de publication comme intervalle:
2017
Description matérielle:
125 pages ; 19 cmcm.
Note générale:
Poems.
Table des matières:
Genesis -- First kill -- Bush trails -- Weekend leave, Wainright to Edmonton -- Drunk-driving -- Emergent -- Night convoy, Kandahar -- Rumours, forward operating base Wilson -- Guard tower, Kandahar -- Ash Wednesday, freedom chapel Kandahar -- Salat -- First shot -- Somewhere in Helmand -- Three week's leave, Germany -- Rooftop, Panjwai -- Somewhere in the desert -- Evening at a burnt-out school with the Tenth Mountain Division -- Skoal -- Easter Sunday, forward operating base Wilson -- Fruit on a wooden table -- A visit from the Prime Minster -- Care package, Kandahar -- Homeward -- Icoonoclast -- Food habits of coyotes, as determined by examination of stomach contents -- Tinnitus, or the drive-thru window when you return -- Vehicle in flame -- Young soldier -- Young boy -- Home again -- Apple-pickling, after Afghanistan -- Winter buck -- Alternate -- Desire in sevens -- A compendium of hands -- July 22, 2006 -- Portrait of a family friend in your bedroom, signed camp Hallein (21/10/45) -- May 2, 2011 -- The liturgical leap into Monday, or some of the things you wish you'd told your grandfather -- Rock picking -- Road race, Christmas day -- Church going -- Poem for he dead after war -- Poem for the last time you wore your uniform -- Otto after the war -- Somewhere in Flanders/Afghanistan -- Stigmata -- For the soldier who slept across the hall -- On teaching Tim O'Brien to an amateur hockey team -- Visiting the old farm, Alberta -- Stories you tell when you wish to love again -- View from slide you onces lpet under -- Sunday mornings -- Remember your body again -- Quiet.
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Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780773551428
Informations de publication:
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
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Edmonton Christian High
819.108 HERBook30905000103923
Non-Fiction