{"product_id":"what-though-the-field-be-lost-poems-paperback","title":"What Though the Field Be Lost: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Kempf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on two years living and researching in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, \u003ci\u003eWhat Though the Field Be Lost \u003c\/i\u003euses the battlefield there as a way to engage ongoing issues involving race, regional identity, and the ethics of memory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith empathy and humility, Kempf reveals the overlapping planes of historical past and public present, integrating archival material--language from monuments, soldiers' letters, eyewitness accounts of the battle--with reflection on present-day social and political unrest. Here monument protests, police shootings, and heated battle reenactments expose the ambivalences and evasions involved in the consolidation of national (and nationalist) identity. In \u003ci\u003eWhat Though the Field Be Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, Kempf shows that, though the Civil War may be over, the field at Gettysburg and all that it stands for remain sharply contested. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShuttling between past and present, the personal and the public, \u003ci\u003eWhat Though the Field Be Lost\u003c\/i\u003e examines the many pasts that inhere, now and forever, in the places we occupy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Kempf \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eLate in the Empire of Men.\u003c\/i\u003e His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBeliever, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePEN America, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. Kempf teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illin\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52629518188851,"sku":"9780807173633","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VU84OC9ZVm5keXNoVUU4bk9QUVNEZz09.webp?v=1762131507","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/what-though-the-field-be-lost-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}