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The gaze of the Gorgon
Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso
- GenresPoetry
80 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1992
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November 2, 2021
great big spam today, but - read for *uni* for cl4668 - classics & the left
gaze of the gorgon is an anti-war film-poem that brings together the second world war, first world war, iliad, the gulf war, and other conflicts, and centralises them all around the horror of the gorgon's gaze, who stands in for war. one quote will suffice to show you its mastery:
'the barbitos, the ancient lyre, / since the kaiser's day, / is restrung with barbed wire / bard's hands bleed when they play / the score that fits an era's scream, / the blood, the suffering, the loss. / the twentieth century theme / is played on barbed wire barbitos.'
gaze of the gorgon is an anti-war film-poem that brings together the second world war, first world war, iliad, the gulf war, and other conflicts, and centralises them all around the horror of the gorgon's gaze, who stands in for war. one quote will suffice to show you its mastery:
'the barbitos, the ancient lyre, / since the kaiser's day, / is restrung with barbed wire / bard's hands bleed when they play / the score that fits an era's scream, / the blood, the suffering, the loss. / the twentieth century theme / is played on barbed wire barbitos.'
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