Burden - Couverture souple

Smith, Douglas Burnet

 
9780889777729: Burden
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0889777721 ISBN 13 : 9780889777729
Editeur : University of Regina Press, 2020

Synopsis

Burden is the story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War I

He was one of hundreds so executed. It is now understood that many had committed no crime, but were suffering from PTSD. Burden’s story is told in the voice of Lance Corporal Reginald Smith, the author’s uncle. The author discovered years later in a box of papers that his uncle, Lance Corporal Smith, had befriended Private Burden but then was ultimately commanded to join in the firing squad that killed his friend. This slim book reaches below standard indictments of war—it shows us that “terrifying,” “senseless,” “horrific” don’t go deep enough. To utter them, the eye must already be closing over. Smith’s account is an object lesson in why poetry matters. It takes us to places even the best journalism can’t reach.

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À propos de l?auteur

Douglas Burnet Smith is the GG Award-nominated author, and Burden is his seventeenth book of poetry. He divides his time between Atlantic Canada and Athens, Greece. He is currently Writer-in-Residence for the Antikythera Archeological Dive Project on the island of Antikythera, Greece, and teaches in the English Department at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

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Éditeur
University of Regina Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0889777721
ISBN 13 
9780889777729
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
72
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Personne responsable
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