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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Swift, Daniel, 1977-     Subjects     English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.     War poetry, English -- History and criticism.     Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Swift, Daniel, 1977-       by title:      Bomber County : the ...       by call number:      821.914 S977b     Search the Web     Swift, Daniel, 1977-     English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.     War poetry, English -- History and criticism.     Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Bomber County : the poetry of a lost pilot's war / Daniel Swift. by Swift, Daniel, 1977- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Call #: 821.914 S977b Subjects English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.   War poetry, English -- History and criticism.   Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780374273316 (alk. paper) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xxvi, p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Contents:  A refusal to mourn -- Five minutes after the air raid -- It was not dying -- B is for bombers -- England and nowhere -- The most beautiful city in the world -- The sadness of soldiers -- Bomber poets -- Icarus. Summary:  "In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on M�nster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First World War, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second. In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with the connections between air war and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the authors search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, Bomber County is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of World War II and poetry, an investigation into the experience of bombing and being bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and literature of a vanished moment"--From publisher description. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 821.914 S977b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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