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Burden is a poetry collection that tells the story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War I. He was one of hundreds so executed. It is now understood that many had committed no crime, but were suffering from PTSD. Burden's story is told in the voice of Lance Corporal Reginald Smith, the author's uncle. The author discovered years later in a box of papers that his uncle, Lance Corporal Smith, had befriended Private Burden but then was ultimately commanded to join in the firing squad that killed his friend. This slim book reaches below standard indictments of war—it shows us that "terrifying," "senseless," "horrific" don't go deep enough. To utter them, the eye must already be closing over. Smith's account is an object lesson in why poetry matters. It takes us to places even the best journalism can't reach.
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Through a traveler’s poems, echoes of history and myth transform into moments of insight. Ghost Oracle follows Douglas Burnet Smith’s travels in Greece as the ancient world and modern life collide in wild, rueful, and funny ways: Athenian subways rattle below the Acropolis, fishermen on the Aegean Sea luridly expectorate, and everywhere tourists in fanny packs accrue like dust on a lens. This subtle and sensuous lyric poetry is alive with the sounds of haunting ruins and bustling streets, the glisten of the sun-drunk sea, and the spell of history. The classics are considered with an ear for the vernacular, for what Plato and Aristotle’s ideas mean today, and what they would make of the financial crisis, protests, and the so-called death of poetry. Dramatic monologues by the statue of Xeno (who has lost his member to the frost) and Du Fu, the eighth-century Chinese poet (during a visit to the Acropolis), confront the wonders and horrors of our world. Smith makes music of the loneliness of the traveler and the glory of the journey, music that rings as true as the fragments of Sappho and epics of Homer.