One Hundred Visions of War

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Julien Vocance
• Editore: Wiseblood Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 07.11.2022
• EAN: 9781951319373
• ISBN: 978-1-951319-37-3
• Pagine: 122
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 203 mm x 7 mm
• Peso: 140 g
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica