ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация
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Moez Surani
From poet-provocateur Moez Surani comes ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация — a book-length poetic inventory of contemporary rhetoric of violence and aggression, as depicted through the evolution of the language used to name the many military operations conducted by UN Member Nations since the organization's inception in 1945.
With Operation, Surani draws on contemporary poetic traditions, including conceptual and inventory poetics, to accomplish two important things: On the one hand, he shows that no word is free from connoting violence, while on the other hand, he provokes readers to consider whether their personal values match the values of the military operation that are conducted by their countries. By pulling military language away from euphemism — effectively, making it account for its doublespeaking ways — Operation gives voice to the many lives lost in conflicts around the world, in a volume that will speak equally to lovers of contemporary poetry, language, and linguistics, as to readers interested in politics, international relations, and public discourse. (From BookThug)
From the book
1945
Clobber
Haystack
1946
Archery
Asylum
Bille
Blizzard
Copyright
Goodwood
Homing Pigeon
Honeybee
Hunger III
Marriages
From ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация by Moez Surani ©2016. Published by BookThug.