“When the war is over […] we will all enlist again” (The Lice): W.S. Merwin P(r)o(ph)etic
This essay takes Kenneth White’s description of “a quiet apocalypse” as a starting point to read the complexities of W.S. Merwin’s poems in The Lice (1967). The poems are to be related to the context of the Vietnam war: the horrors perpetrated by the U.S. in Vietnam are legible in the tense and dark...
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Association française d'Etudes Américaines (AFEA)
2024
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4000/134gn https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/134gn https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/23827 |
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