Poem

Deathly pale

Title Deathly pale
Author Chris  Agee

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
Blue Sandbar Moon 2018 Print Collection View Details
Publication Instance Details #2749
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology Blue Sandbar Moon
Date of Publication 2018
Publisher The Irish Pages Press (UK)
Page Number(s) 36
Publication Overview
Translation Is Multilingual Explicit Irish Context? Ekphrasis Has Paratext? Reference to News, Media or Technology
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Details
Human Rights Issues
War / Genocide Referenced
Languages
Genre Lyric Sequence
Medium Print Collection
Paratext Text Mauritshuis The Hague 23 April 2009
Notes At the time of writing, the poet was attending the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The poet-speaker's choice of admired paintings here seems thusly significant: the dead child and the blood-coloured strawberries seem to reflect oblique aspects of the very war for which the Tribunal has been organized.
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