September Eleventh: An Epic Poem, in Fragments
An Epic Poem, in Fragments
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By Amalie Flynn (2021)
Part memoir, part multimedia experiment, part catharsis, Amalie ("ah-MAHL-ee-ah") Flynn explores how the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 both shatter and echo in us--both as individuals and as a culture.Flynn is author of the 2013's Wife and War: A Memoir, and is also the poetry editor of the monthly literary journal The Wrath-Bearing Tree.Her poetry collection September Eleventh grew first from a 2011 series of blog posts at https://septembereleventh.wordpress.com/, which the artist in 2021 subsequently recrafted as a random-access constellation of 130 social media posts and companion YouTube videos. The book can be read sequentially, or accessed by flipping among pages."Leave it to a poet to unlock something fresh and new in the space of 'remember when' stories," writes the publisher. "Here is a narrative that both invites participants to recall their own experiences of a collectively traumatic day in history, while also recreating the immediacies and uncertainties of what it was like to live through it."In the print edition, each micro-poem is presented along with a shortened URL link to a corresponding YouTube video. In the Kindle e-book edition, each URL is a "live" hyperlink to that poem's video. Each edition also features a scannable QR code to readers to the entire set of 130 videos.
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