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...OVERLORD By Jorie Graham...
...This morning before dawn no stars I try again." In Overlord--the title comes from the Allied code name for D-day--we find Graham deep in prayer, to whom and for what she isn't sure. But her poems, which mix autobiography and World War II documentary, struggle to come to terms with the raw human realities of war: "The experience of killing and getting killed." --By Lev Grossman
Tuesday, March 8. Jorie Graham reads from Overlord: Poems. 6:30 p.m., Harvard Bookstore. Admission free...
Graham addressed the limitations of reading from her book, a collection of poems mainly located on Omaha Beach, the site of Operation Overlord, beginning the so-called liberation of Europe by Allied forces during World War II. First issuing a disclaimer to audience members to not read along, as she tended to make mistakes, Graham also confessed that these words were not meant to be read from a podium. She had not even intended for them to become poems...
...creation was made evident, but the saturation of ideas was largely inaccessible upon first hearing. It was hard not to become enraptured with Graham’s prayer, as her voice is so compelling and forceful, yet to understand her personal catechism, it is likely necessary to actually read Overlord...