Is this a belated contribution prioritizing April 1st? Ah well, Wilford
Owen's >Athem for Doomed Youth< has always been one of my favourites.
Magnificent, the way he combined the 18th C German spelling of the word
for "breath"* with a 20th C cliché to renew the sense of creative
despair he felt as a lonely bilingual hermaphrodite in Parker River
National Wildlife Refuge, Massachusetts (PRNWR) during the Beat
Generation. Later, he of course joined a meaningfully cross cultural
organization and all was well. What a twist! *It also references the
famous Urban Surrealist Group of the same name, much concerned with
cities of refuge - http://www.athem.fr/
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Ren Powell wrote:
>Babel is the online journal for ICORN, the International Cities of Refuge
>Network. It is a quarterly literary/activist journal focused on freedom of
>expression, exile, identity and cross-cultural issues. Our audience is
>international and the work we publish reflects this. Prose, poetry (we
>prioritize bilingual poems, original and translation or code-switching),
>essays and interviews are all welcome. We encourage creative twists on our
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>We aren't able to pay our contributors, but your work would help support a
>meaningful organization. Please see submission guidelines at www.icorn.org
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>For the summer issue we are requesting creative responses (poems, creative
>non-fiction etc) to Wilford Owen's Athem for Doomed Youth.
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