 [ Large Image ] | The Photographer’s Last Picture Sean Howard 2016 / Poetry / $29.95 9781554471607 / Trade paper / 368 pp Sean Howard has written twenty poems inspired by photographs he discovered in a tattered copy of Collier’s Photographic History of the European War (1916), although ‘inspired’ is hardly an adequate word for it. For Howard, each photograph introduces a cascade of associations and ideas about history and memory, about the events and implications of the First World War, and about our ongoing relationship with global conflict. The resulting poems have the economy and energy of a stark, high-contrast print, yet what is perhaps most striking about the book is the way Howard’s prose passages chronicle the development of each photograph into a poem, like images slowly taking form in the chemistry of a darkroom tray. Following a method that is “precariously dependent on attentiveness, memory and chance encounters, personal and cultural associations followed as broadly, deeply, and unsystematically as possible,” The Photographer’s Last Picture assembles observation, description, quotation and amplification into an episodic text capable of transmitting a range of uncertain truths unavailable to conventional History. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Trinity: Tribute Sequences, for Robert Graves Sean Howard 2022 / Canadian Poetry / $23.95 CAN 9781554472420 / Trade paper / 128 pp |  | Unrecovered: 9/11 Poems, Then As Now Sean Howard 2021 / Canadian Poetry / $21.95 CAN 9781554472284 / Trade paper / 112 pp |  | Ghost Estates Sean Howard 2018 / Canadian Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554471898 / Trade paper / 80 pp |  | So Many Boys All Doing Right Sean Howard 2017 / Poetry / $75.00 CAN Fine / 40 pp |  | Incitements Sean Howard 2011 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554470969 / Trade paper / 96 pp |
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