Poem

Of Certain Architects, Technicians and Butchers

Title Of Certain Architects, Technicians and Butchers
Author Theo Dorgan

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
What This Earth Cost Us 2008 Print Collection View Details
Publication Instance Details #3256
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology What This Earth Cost Us
Date of Publication 2008
Publisher Dedalus Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s) 105
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
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Genre Short Lyric
Medium Print Collection
Notes The allegorical title of the poem alludes to the humanist material culture as a perennial symbol of human greed and violence. The speaker assumes the boastful voice of an annihilator who lists a series of historical catastrophes from antiquity through WWII to the present. The title of the collection What the Earth Cost Us is a quote by Osip Mandelstam.
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