Contemporary Poetry

76 contemporary poetry Bernstein candidly recognises that ‘it is almost a joke to speak of poetry and national affairs’.^44 Evok ...

politics and poetics 77 time, history, and other people. But that doesn’t mean poetry itself is passive.^47 Eliot Weinberger’s W ...

78 contemporary poetry I heard the president say: ‘We’ll fi nd them. It’ll be a matter of time to do so.’ I heard Donald Rumsfel ...

politics and poetics 79 and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take ref ...

80 contemporary poetry POLITICS AND POETICS OF EXILE: CHOMAN HARDI Attention to a traumatic political history is explored by Kur ...

politics and poetics 81 camps (Topzawa, Dibis, Nugra Salman, Nizarka, Salamya). At the beginning of each Anfal stage chemical at ...

82 contemporary poetry my left leg in the other” ’ (p. 30 ). One of the fi nal poems, ‘To Kurdistan’, suggests a need for a cart ...

politics and poetics 83 from South-East Asia. These densely framed lyrics of testimony form the basis of the volume Dien Cai Dau ...

84 contemporary poetry well beyond the horizon of their attention, and equally beyond the periphery of their knowledge. Many of ...

politics and poetics 85 speaker may touch the name of a Vietnam veteran, Andrew Johnson, and ‘see the booby trap’s white fl ash’ ...

86 contemporary poetry interrogate history and reconstruct different narratives to those archived or in historical textbooks.^65 ...

politics and poetics 87 ceeded, no clue to the General’s state of mind at the time. Just the bald facts: 20 , 000 dead over a wo ...

88 contemporary poetry Collingwood believed that if the African slaves died a natural death, the owners of the ship would have t ...

politics and poetics 89 be told, which must be told, but through not telling.’^73 A glossary at the close of Zong! points the re ...

90 contemporary poetry oh the oba sobs again ifá ifá ifá i fá over and over the seven seas ora in this time ora within ora ora t ...

politics and poetics 91 I think we’ve been using the master’s tools (to use Audre Lorde’s powerful metaphor) to dismantle the st ...

92 contemporary poetry Poetry serves an important role in its voicing against war as well as chronicling war experiences from t ...

politics and poetics 93 Charles Bernstein, ‘Second War and Postmodern Memory’, in A Poetics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University ...

94 contemporary poetry David Sharrock, ‘Martin McGuinness Makes Parting Gift of Poetry to Ian Paisley’, The Times, 6 June 2008. ...

politics and poetics 95 Roland Barthes, S/Z, trans. Richard Miller (Oxford: Blackwell, [ 1970 ] 2000 ). Charles Bernstein, ‘Com ...