{"product_id":"one-hundred-visions-of-war-paperback","title":"One Hundred Visions of War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulien Vocance\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlfred Nicol\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDana Gioia\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"One Hundred Visions of War\" of Julien Vocance (1878-1954) comprise some of the first haiku written in the West. Where classical Japanese haiku traditionally speaks of the beauty of Nature, Vocance uses the form to a very different purpose, depicting the horror and brutality of armed conflict, as seen from the trenches during the First World War. Readers get a ground-level view of unimaginable slaughter. The value of Vocance's poetry lies in its witness to the experience of the human being caught up in a battle which, as Wendell Berry put it, \"the machines won.\" Only imagine: an obscure soldier-poet pits his human art against overwhelming military technology, and his art survives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42123273928839,"sku":"9781951319373","price":12.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/27b1b889c67cc923db83a9104cb3dec0.webp?v=1732565440","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/one-hundred-visions-of-war-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}