Charles Sorley's Ghost: Essays and Poems for the Memorial Year 2014 - Softcover

Blokker, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500676527 ISBN 13: 9781500676520

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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One hundred years ago, the guns of August roared. The four years of conflict that followed were so terrible that many called it “The War to End all Wars.” But the Great War was just the starting point for a century dominated by war at the cost of over 187,000,000 human lives. The losses suffered by all sides during that conflict, and its blatant stagnation and uselessness, should have taught us, but they didn’t. Among the losses were some of the brightest young talents of a generation, including brilliant poets Alan Seeger, Tom Kettle, Wilfred Owen, and Charles Hamilton Sorley. Charles Sorley’s Ghost commemorates those losses and examines the impact of war from the poet’s perspective. More than a Dead Poets Soliloquy, however, this volume also takes note of other significant anniversaries that will be marked in the Memorial Year 2014, as well as celebrations of life. The introduction and appendices provide both an historical framework and food for thought. Still, much of this volume is a thanatopsis – a contemplation of Death, our one true God. And War is that God’s first lieutenant.

Biografía del autor:

Roy Blokker was born in Holland in 1950. His parents immigrated when he was two, leaving him feeling tied to both the Old World and the New. He is author of five volumes of poetry as well as "The Music of Dmitri Shostakovich: The Symphonies" (with Robert Dearling), "Custer's Last Stand," and the novel "Amber Waves." His shorter work has appeared in various magazines and sites ranging from "Highlights for Children" to "Leaves of Ink." Retired from the Postal Service, he is now a full time writer. With his bride of forty years and counting, he lives in northwestern Montana near Flathead Lake and Glacier National Park,

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500676527
• ISBN 13: 9781500676520
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 191