| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 86 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Poems reflecting on love and war. |
| Contents |
Love in the time of war: The jawbone of an ass. A shank -- Gilgamesh's Humbaba was a distant drum -- Here, the old masters of Shock & Awe -- The Mameluke, slave & warrior, springs -- They swarmed down over the town -- My wide hips raised two warriors -- Hand-to-hand : the two hugged each other -- Tribe. Clan. Valley & riverbank. Country. Continent. Interstellar -- The drummer's hands were bloody -- Tonight, the old hard work of love -- When our hands caress bullets & grenades -- A bottle-nosed dolphin swims midnight water -- Someone's beating a prisoner -- His name is called. A son's lost voice -- Heavy metal. The helmet -- The catapult -- Warhorses -- The clay army -- The panorama -- Guernica -- Grenade -- The towers -- Heavy metal soliloquy -- The warlord's garden -- Surge -- Clouds -- The Hague -- The devil comes on horseback -- The crying hill -- Autobiography of my alter ego. |
| Subject |
War poetry.
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Love poetry.
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| ISBN |
0374286434 |
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9780374286439 |
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