One Hundred Visions of War

by Vocance, Julien
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ISBN: 9781951319373
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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.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Vocance, Julien
  • ISBN: 9781951319373
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 0.26
  • Number Of Pages: 122
  • Publication Year: 2022
Language: English

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