The Blue Split Compartments Nightboat identity andhistory

identity andhistory

Ian Patterson

I love this poet’s compulsive sense of risk

the language of crisis gapes and sings

founder of Stridentism

The Blue Split Compartments Nightboat identity andhistoryAndrea Brady The Blue Split Compartments is a complex and powerful sequence of lyric poems exploring the relationships between military drone operators and their victims. Drawing on chatroom logs, military policy manuals, pattern of life archives, and accounts by witnesses around the world, these poems document the consequences of the perpetual and 'everywhere war.' With its sophisticated interplay of diction, rhetoric, syntax, positioning, allusion,