Elegy for Dead Languages

Poetry. ELEGY FOR DEAD LANGUAGES collects in print the long documentary poems "War Rug," "Elegy for Dead Languages," and "Hood, Handgun, Power Drill." "Francesco Levato's powerful documentary, War Rug—like Eliot Weinberger's What I Heard About Iraq before it—detains the language of the perpetrators of global military aggression and redeploys it to indict them. From J.C. Penny catalog copy to counterintelligence manuals and autopsy reports, War Rug is a fierce yet unfortunate reminder of the absolute horrors of our age"—Mark Nowak.