While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It
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Product Details
Author:
Lytton Smith
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Publisher:
Nightboat Books (March 12, 2013)
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781937658113
ISBN-10:
1937658112
Weight:
4.8oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
File:
CONSORTIUM-Metadata_Only_Consortium_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260401130216-20260401.xml
Folder:
CONSORTIUM
List Price:
$15.95
Case Pack:
80
As low as:
$13.72
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
60
Imprint:
Nightboat Books
Overview
How do we react to disaster, to political uprising, to spectacle? With relief missions, donations, and what words? While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It, the second book by Lytton Smith, explores the relationship between poetry, news, and the lives of others. Poised between Brecht’s critique of empathy and Martha Nussbaum’s politics of compassion, this powerful collection plays with direct address and personal testimony as it investigates the relationship between ethics and the aesthetic. Drawing on sources that range from travel guides, BBC reports, contemporary art exhibitions, and sixteenth-century debates about masque, Smith’s book offers a range of forms that test the edges of the page, the borders of communication.
