Unknown Soldier, An
What is the meaning of an unknown soldier in the age of DNA testing? Does he now embody our desire to ignore the past, rather than remember?
‘An Unknown Soldier’ dissects the legacy of war in three parts. First, ‘Preparatory Oratory’ satirises official remembrance with a voice like the bastard-child of BLAST and The Book of Common Prayer.
Part II is a disordered pile of fragments and duplicates for the reader to rearrange; the Unknown Soldier himself who “may not be all there”. The dialect of no-man’s-land is as corrupted as this body of text.
Part III (Funeral, March) is a triptych of verses that reflect on the author’s family on the home front and in peacetime.
| Weight | 0.265000 |
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| ISBN13/Barcode | 9780956316660 |
| ISBN10 | 0956316662 |
| Author | HENNINGHAM, David |
| Binding | Paperback |
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| Date Published | 18th November 2010 |
| Report Date | 2024/03/01 |
| Pages | 0 |
| Publisher | Henningham Family Press |
What is the meaning of an unknown soldier in the age of DNA testing? Does he now embody our desire to ignore the past, rather than remember?
‘An Unknown Soldier’ dissects the legacy of war in three parts. First, ‘Preparatory Oratory’ satirises official remembrance with a voice like the bastard-child of BLAST and The Book of Common Prayer.
Part II is a disordered pile of fragments and duplicates for the reader to rearrange; the Unknown Soldier himself who “may not be all there”. The dialect of no-man’s-land is as corrupted as this body of text.
Part III (Funeral, March) is a triptych of verses that reflect on the author’s family on the home front and in peacetime.