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  title info:
    title: Extraordinary renditions
  name:
    name part: Lambros, Niki
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Wolff, Elana
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 59 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: "The voices in this collection come from the deep past when war began, and span the centuries to the present moment, with war still raging around the globe: we hear the ancient story of how violent killers became heroes and then saints, how the picture of torture became an icon to be venerated, salvation achieved through the instruments of pain and death. The Greek word "martyr" means "witness"; in these poems the voices of victims speak in their own words, the disappeared and nameless dead tell their stories. Many of the poems relate speech directly from news sources, and recreate context to amplify those words so they can be heard and remembered. Each reading reveals new layers of meaning, echoes and soundings that will linger in the ear and raise a call to action against injustice, hatred and fear. As the master poet Joseph Brodsky said, "Poetry is ... the only form of moral insurance that a society has.""--
  note: Niki Lambros.
  note: Poems.
  note: "Elana Wolff, poetry editor"--Title page verso.
  subject:
    topic: Canadian poetry
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: PR9199.4.L356 E97 2019
  classification: 811/.6
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Essential poets ; 264
  identifier: 9781771833868
  identifier: 1771833866
  identifier: 2018967804
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 181114
    record change date: 20250318220327.9
    record identifier: in00004137720
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng