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Voyager
Paperback, 129 pages, Univ of California Pr, List Price: $22.95 | purchase
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- Waldheim, Kurt,
- Poetry
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Srikanth Reddy didn't actually write any of the words in Voyager; he just took someone else's words away. Which is to say that Voyager is an erasure: A poetic composition created by means of elimination from another text. In this case, that text is the autobiography of Kurt Waldheim, the former secretary-general of the United Nations who was discovered in 1985 to have served as a Nazi SA officer in World War II. Reddy is fascinated by the fact that this flawed man is one... more
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