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Ozone Journal (Paperback)
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Ozone Journal (Paperback)
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List price R459
Loot Price R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
You Save R85 (19%)
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From Ozone Journal. Bach's cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette,
we lounged under the greenhouse - sky, the UVBs hacking at the
acids and oxides and then I could hear the difference between an
oboe and a bassoon at the river's edge under cover-trees breathed
in our respiration; there was something on the other side of the
river, something both of us were itching toward - radical bonds
were broken, history became science. We were never the same. The
title poem of Peter Balakian's Ozone Journal is a sequence of
fifty-four short sections, each a poem in itself, recounting the
speaker's memory of excavating the bones of Armenian genocide
victims in the Syrian desert with a crew of television journalists
in 2009. These memories spark others-the dissolution of his
marriage, his life as a young single parent in Manhattan in the
nineties, visits and conversations with a cousin dying of
AIDS-creating a montage that has the feel of history as lived
experience. Bookending this sequence are shorter lyrics that span
times and locations, from Nairobi to the Native American villages
of New Mexico. In the dynamic, sensual language of these poems, we
are reminded that the history of atrocity, trauma, and forgetting
is both global and ancient; but we are reminded, too, of the beauty
and richness of culture and the resilience of love.
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