{"product_id":"battle-lines-joel-baetz-9781771123297","title":"Battle Lines: Canadian Poetry in English and the First World War","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period's poetry, and booksellers were told it was their duty to stock shelves with war poetry. Readers bought thousands of volumes of poetry. Twenty years later, by the time Canada went to war again, no one remembered any of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBattle Lines\u003c\/i\u003e traces the rise and disappearance of Canadian First World War poetry, and offers a striking and comprehensive account of its varied and vexing poetic gestures. As eagerly as Canadians took to the streets to express their support for the war, poets turned to their notebooks, and shared their interpretations of the global conflict, repeating and reshaping popular notions of, among others, national obligation, gendered responsibility, aesthetic power, and deathly presence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book focuses on the poetic interpretations of the Canadian soldier. He emerges as a contentious poetic subject, a figure of battle romance, and an emblem of modernist fragmentation and fractiousness. Centring the work of five exemplary Canadian war poets (Helena Coleman, John McCrae, Robert Service, Frank Prewett, and W.W.E. Ross), the book reveals their latent faith in collective action as well as conflicting recognition of modernist subjectivities. \u003ci\u003eBattle Lines\u003c\/i\u003e identifies the Great War as a long-overlooked period of poetic ferment, experimentation, reluctance, and challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Baetz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 177112329X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771123297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilfrid Laurier University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Joel Baetz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937938243839,"sku":"9781771123297","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_11228b98-1e8f-40d5-ac6b-2c939375c8ae.jpg?v=1681432784","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/battle-lines-joel-baetz-9781771123297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}