Daniel Swift's Bomber Country: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War
posted by greg rappleye at 6:56 AM
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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- Name: greg rappleye
- Location: Grand Haven, Michigan, United States
I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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Sorry about the bad link. I corrected it.
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Hmmm, it looks like a great book - except the cover of the US edition, is, well, silly.
Why have they got a silhouetted Grumman Avenger, with US markings, flying over a bombed German city? Never happened, they were carrier based torpedo bombers.
The Hamish and Hamilton UK edition has some powerful and accurate Paul Nash paintings of (I think) Whitleys on its cover.
Does this matter? Not to the dead, I know - but why not do the homework and not just grab images off the internet to appeal to American audiences?
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