While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It by Smith, Lytton

While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781937658113)

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While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It by Smith, Lytton

While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It

$15.95
While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It by Smith, Lytton

While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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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 offers a range of forms that test the edges of the page, the borders of communication.

Author: Lytton Smith
ISBN-10: 1937658112
ISBN-13: 9781937658113
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2013
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2013
By Lytton Smith
By Lytton Smith
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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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