[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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