This is an excellent poem. I would like to highlight the following:
"
the blistered city broken open by these
brutal silences-our silence & that which falls
between the flash of light & the shockwave
of super-heated air & blur of shrapnel that
snaps bones & reduces the body to pulp."
On 5/4/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> a great response to a great poem. I found the tones interestingly
> similar & yet separate, like they were most certainly written in
> different eras.
> there's a fun part in Pat Barker's _Regeneration_ where Siegfried
> Sassoon helps Owen with "Anthem".
>
> KS
>
> On 04/05/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Bit of self-promotion. I have a poem in the Summer 2007 issue of
> > Babel<http://www.icorn.org/articles.php?var=63>.
> > Anger & despair about Iraq.
> >
> > jd
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Duemer
> > Professor of Humanities
> > Clarkson University
> > [sharpsand.net]
> >
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