Children shattered in the
April cannon fire. Look! A riot of
blossoms dazzle the hillsides.
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Reviews of "War In Springtime"
Reviewed by Peter Schlosser (Reader)
Reviewed on August 1, 2009
Yes, the old misdirection play. Been screaming about this for years! What's the next shiny object to distract our attention from the things that really matter. Great perspective here...nicely said!
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,