Smoke rising
Subtitle: London 1940-1
By: John Seed
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bristol [UK]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9781848614321
Subjects: Poetry; History; Bombardment of London (England : 1940-1941) fast (OCoLC)fst01352086
Description: "Smoke Rising is a documentary poem. Very much in the tradition of Charles Reznikoff{u2019}s Testimony, it utilises oral sources to capture the speech {u2013} and perhaps the experience - of those who suffered the London Blitz. However, its elective affinities are also to Walter Benjamin{u2019}s great unfinished Arcades Project: "to carry the principle of montage into history {u2026} to assemble large-scale constructions out of the smallest and most precisely cut components {u2026} to discover in the analysis of the small individual moment the crystal of the total event." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.