What Though the Field Be Lost: Poems

Based on two years living and researching in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, What Though the Field Be Lost uses...
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Author: Christopher Kempf
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What Though the Field Be Lost: Poems by Kempf, Christopher

What Though the Field Be Lost: Poems

CHF 25.12

What Though the Field Be Lost: Poems

CHF 25.12
Author: Christopher Kempf
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Based on two years living and researching in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, What Though the Field Be Lost uses the battlefield there as a way to engage ongoing issues involving race, regional identity, and the ethics of memory.

With empathy and humility, Kempf reveals the overlapping planes of historical past and public present, integrating archival material--language from monuments, soldiers' letters, eyewitness accounts of the battle--with reflection on present-day social and political unrest. Here monument protests, police shootings, and heated battle reenactments expose the ambivalences and evasions involved in the consolidation of national (and nationalist) identity. In What Though the Field Be Lost, Kempf shows that, though the Civil War may be over, the field at Gettysburg and all that it stands for remain sharply contested.

Shuttling between past and present, the personal and the public, What Though the Field Be Lost examines the many pasts that inhere, now and forever, in the places we occupy.

Author: Christopher Kempf
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 01/27/2021
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780807173633

About the Author
Christopher Kempf is the author of the poetry collection Late in the Empire of Men. His work has appeared in the Believer, Best American Poetry, the Kenyon Review, the New Republic, PEN America, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. Kempf teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illin

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