While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It - Couverture souple

Smith, Lytton

 
9781937658113: While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1937658112 ISBN 13 : 9781937658113
Editeur : Nightboat Books, 2013

Synopsis

How do we react to disaster, to political uprising, to spectacle? With relief missions, donations, and what words? While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It, the second book by Lytton Smith, explores the relationship between poetry, news, and the lives of others. Poised between Brecht's critique of empathy and Martha Nussbaum's politics of compassion, this powerful collection plays with direct address and personal testimony as it investigates the relationship between ethics and the aesthetic. Drawing on sources that range from travel guides, BBC reports, contemporary art exhibitions, and sixteenth-century debates about masque, Smith's book offers a range of forms that test the edges of the page, the borders of communication.

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À propos de l?auteur

LYTTON SMITH's debut collection, The All-Purpose Magical Tent won the Nightboat Poetry Books Poetry Prize and was published in 2008. He lives and teaches teaches English and creative writing at Plymouth University.

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Éditeur
Nightboat Books
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1937658112
ISBN 13 
9781937658113
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
88
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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