War and poetry
Notes on war aesthetics by Joshua Schuster
“If after World War I the true trauma of battle shattered any easy collaboration between war and art, the links still remain latent in the very idea of an avant-garde, which is after all a military term that puts art on the offensive. The avant-garde mounts a militant aesthetic, proposing a cultural war of social and poetic means. If poetry were to totally dislocate itself from a war aesthetic, it also would have to go beyond the premise of an avant-garde…”
(via wood s lot)