{"product_id":"one-hundred-visions-of-war-9781951319373","title":"One Hundred Visions of War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \"One Hundred Visions of War\" of Julien Vocance (1878-1954) comprise some of the first haiku written in the West. Where classical Japanese haiku traditionally speaks of the beauty of Nature, Vocance uses the form to a very different purpose, depicting the horror and brutality of armed conflict, as seen from the trenches during the First World War. Readers get a ground-level view of unimaginable slaughter. The value of Vocance's poetry lies in its witness to the experience of the human being caught up in a battle which, as Wendell Berry put it, \"the machines won.\" Only imagine: an obscure soldier-poet pits his human art against overwhelming military technology, and his art survives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wiseblood Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50391637197074,"sku":"9781951319373","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_66f34a55-8f58-4a11-b6a1-14bd66c662d3.jpg?v=1728964727","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/one-hundred-visions-of-war-9781951319373","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}