While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It
by
Lytton Smith
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1937658112
ISBN-13
9781937658113
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Imprint
Nightboat Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 25th, 2013
Print length
88 Pages
Weight
140 grams
Dimensions
14.20 x 20.40 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry
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A riveting second collection from a "poet already in his prime" (Boston Review)
How do we react to disaster, to political uprising, to spectacle? With relief missions, donations, and what words? While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It, the second book by Lytton Smith, explores the relationship between poetry, news, and the lives of others. Poised between Brecht’s critique of empathy and Martha Nussbaum’s politics of compassion, this powerful collection plays with direct address and personal testimony as it investigates the relationship between ethics and the aesthetic. Drawing on sources that range from travel guides, BBC reports, contemporary art exhibitions, and sixteenth-century debates about masque, Smith’s book offers a range of forms that test the edges of the page, the borders of communication.
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