{"product_id":"back-to-the-war-9780889225145","title":"Back to the War","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Frank Davey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Talon Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Talon Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than 30 years in the making, Frank Davey's careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence his youthful imagination assembled growing up in and immediately after World War II is a work of astonishment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is no lyrical work of sentimental nostalgia, no attempt to return to a romanticized \"simpler past,\" no rediscovery of \"the child within,\" but rather a careful reconstruction of \"the child without.\" The reader moves through these poems, neither sanitized nor updated by their passage through experience, as one would through a gallery installation of intensely personal epiphanies, both frightening and ecstatic, lucid and obscure. They are stripped of any cultural preconception, a Blakean vision of the good and evil men and women do as they engage the other in a world at war--a world where the war is always somewhere else, but where the enemy, unseen, is everywhere present in the invented surrogates of combat.","brand":"Talon Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082446004375,"sku":"9780889225145","price":828.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780889225145.webp?v=1767634700","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/back-to-the-war-9780889225145","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}