[New-Poetry] Backwards poetry

[John Jeffrey]

The Robert Pack poem you're thinking of is "The Boat" ("I dressed my father in his little clothes").  Pack's got another called, too, called "Snow Rise" ("Dreaming time has reversed, I watch drowned snow/Appear to lift up from the lake").

For movies, there's Memento, where the scenes are shown in reverse order.

John J



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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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