[New-Poetry] Backwards poetry

Rsgwynn1 at cs.com Rsgwynn1 at cs.com
Wed Sep 24 09:11:16 EDT 2008


In a message dated 9/23/2008 9:46:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
GrahamD at ripon.edu writes: 
> 
> For a classroom exercise, I'm looking for poems that reverse time.  Not ones 
> that focus on memories, but ones that actually describe time being reversed, 
> like movies run backward, etc.
> 
> Got any favorites?
> 
> 
> 
Not a poem, but there's that great scene in Slaughterhouse Five where Billy 
watches a war documentary backwards.  Also J. G. Ballard's story "Time of 
Passage."  There's a poem by Robert Pack in the old Mark Strand anthology, but I 
can't find it now.   
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