The Murdered Heart: Sonnets by George Bosh
Subtitle: Including In Bali and the Sequence 9/11 and Aftermath
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Published: December 11, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781424161942
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; General; Poetry / General; Poetry
Description: Mr. Bosh has spent the latter part of his working life abroad in the third world, notably Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.  His poetry reflects that corporate experience and his life-long love of history and the arts.  He was encouraged at an early age by his mother to read classical literature and poetry.  He writes mainly in the sonnet form because it enables him to explore the possibilities of metric verse with its inherent musicality.  The sonnet requires the discipline use of a ready-made framework, suitable for the examination of his ideas.
Notes: The Lower Manhattan Project is the name of a website of a university research program on contemporary mythology, which monitors the creative works inspired by the 9/11 attacks on New York City.  It cites the book as an "important" resource.  Also, two DVD's, In the Valley of Elah with Josh Brolin and Michael Clayton with George Clooney, especially the Clooney film, which looks at the problem of corporate group-think, touch upon the poetry themes.  Michael Clayton addresses the problem politically, while the poetry, sees it as an inherent corporate structural problem.  "System defines behavior..."