Memorial This Little Art

Memorial This Little ArtAlice Oswald Matthew Arnold praised the "Iliad" for its 'nobility', as has everyone ever since but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its 'bright unbearable reality' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story, and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief 'biographies' of the minor war dead, most of whom are

Amy De'Ath turns poetry into a hot

the instructions of angels

11 immerses readers in the State-sponsored terror during this period and the effects it would continue to have on Chile

niet-zijn en alles daartussenin

"From all these refusals

holds fast to our fragile utopias

haar grote liefde verloor en het haar niet meer lukt haar kamer te verlaten

vernacular knowledge of complex systems

Sjaan Flikweert

Prynne praised Crump’s delicate use of rhyme – ‘glances of sound as echoes of place & touch’

by no means autobiographical

door middel van talloze vergelijkingen en metaforen