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Back to the War

Paperback
Published : Thursday 16 June 2005
ISBN : 9780889225145
Price : €11.69


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More than 30 years in the making, Frank Daveys careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence his youthful imagination assembled growing up in and immediately after World War II is a work of astonishment.

This is no lyrical work of sentimental nostalgia, no attempt to return to a romanticized "simpler past," no rediscovery of "the child within," but rather a careful reconstruction of "the child without." The reader moves through these poems, neither sanitized nor updated by their passage through experience, as one would through a gallery installation of intensely personal epiphanies, both frightening and ecstatic, lucid and obscure. They are stripped of any cultural preconception, a Blakean vision of the good and evil men and women do as they engage the other in a world at war-a world where the war is always somewhere else, but where the enemy, unseen, is everywhere present in the invented surrogates of combat.



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