the chance encounter of four strangers in a New York bar one evening during the second world war, is held together by a compelling mixture of ritual and naturalistic detail. Bombing raids, torpedoed ships, childhood memories flicker past as [W.H.] Auden wrestles with destruction and survival, and the dizzying scale of war when set against the complexities of individual experience.from Charles Bainbridge: The Guardian: Poetry--review
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