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While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It
Lytton Smith
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Description for While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 141.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781937658113
SKU
V9781937658113
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99-15
About Lytton Smith
LYTTON SMITH’s debut collection, The All-Purpose Magical Tent won the Nightboat Poetry Books Poetry Prize and was published in 2008. He lives and teaches teaches English and creative writing at Plymouth University.
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