To the House of Collateral Damage

William La Riche

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English

Seven Stories
01 August 2011

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

This incredibly ambitious, book-length poem takes on the modern problem of war. The poem's great achievement is that it situates our own age, not as a golden age, but as one notable for its harshness and brutality, especially towards noncombatants, as well as for the beauty of the language that can be found to describe and understand that brutality, and perhaps to change it. Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid allow us, two and a half millennia later, to experience the complexity and contradictions of the ancient world. La Riche proposes, boldly, to observe and judge our own world through the contradictions of our relationship to war.

By: William La Riche
Imprint: Seven Stories
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 219g
ISBN: 9781583228593
ISBN 10: 1583228594
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for To the House of Collateral Damage

'Beauty will save the world, ' said Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quoting Dostoyevsky. William La Riche's poem is a fragment of just such life-giving beauty: timely, timeless, formidable, tender. Soaring and descending. Unlike any other work I know; and, once known, unforgettable. -Shirley Hazzard I am forever indebted to William La Riche. He has given us a profound meditation on life and death. A poetic history of our time, for all time. -Howard Zinn