Unrecovered
9/11 Poems, Then As Now
- Publisher
- Gaspereau Press Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2021
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554472284
- Publish Date
- Apr 2021
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
This book combines Sean Howard’s “Blackbox Angelus” a long poem written in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks with a new poem revisiting those devastating events and exploring their lasting impact. Howard’s iconoclastic style echoes the shock and fracture of its subject, disassembling and reassembling the language surrounding this tragedy in an attempt to create uncommon sense where the usual conventions of grief and closure have failed, leaving the remains of that terrible day unrecovered.
About the author
Sean Howard’s poetry has appeared in such journals as Geist, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Descant, and Arc. His first book, Local Calls, was published in 2009. Originally from the United Kingdom, Howard now lives in the lobster-fishing village of Main-à-Dieu, Cape Breton, and is adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University.