To the House of Collateral Damage: Centuries of the Civilian Dead - Couverture souple

La Riche, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1583228594 ISBN 13 : 9781583228593

Editeur : Seven Stories Press, 2008

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This incredibly ambitious, book-length poem takes on the modern problem of war. The poem's great achievement is that it situates our own age, not as a golden age, but as one notable for its harshness and brutality, especially towards noncombatants, as well as for the beauty of the language that can be found to describe and understand that brutality, and perhaps to change it. Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid allow us, two and a half millennia later, to experience the complexity and contradictions of the ancient world. La Riche proposes, boldly, to observe and judge our own world through the contradictions of our relationship to war.

Biographie de l'auteur

WILLIAM LA RICHE was a Fulbright Scholar and has lectured at New York University and Princeton University in art and architecture over the years. His previous book Alexandria: The Sunken City is about the largest underwater excavation of all time. He lives in New York City.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Seven Stories Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1583228594
• ISBN 13: 9781583228593
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192