Unforgetting Private Charles Smith / Jonathan Locke Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Charles, 1893-1916.

Smith, Charles.

Smith, Charles, 1893-1916--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

66 pages ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, AB : AU Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier's small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary's first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that Charles Smith was an Anglo-Canadian, born in Kent, and that this diary was almost all that remained of this forgotten man, who like so many soldiers from ordinary families had lost his life in the First World War. In reading the diary, Hart discovered a voice full of life, and the presence of a rhythm, a cadence that urged him to bring forth the poetry in Smith's words. Unforgetting Private Charles Smith is the poetic setting of the words in Smith's diary, work undertaken by Hart with the intention of remembering Smith's life rather than commemorating his death."-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956- Unforgetting Private Charles Smith.

ISBN:

9781771992534

1771992530

OCLC:

1085670647

Publisher Number:

99984130530