Tuesday, October 14, 2008

News at Eleven: Alphabets are unreadable,

roadblocks stop traffic, and poem titles sound the alert by reaching for the Old Testament ("How Long, O Lord, Will You Leave Them?"). The book opens with "Fire Regs", in which [Michael Symmons] Roberts captures the inertia of public speech in the face of mayhem: "In the event of a ram raid/on the atrium, a van stuffed/with explosives, please take sides."

from The Guardian: Messages from the conflict zone

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