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A final verse in the trenches: armed poets who died for a cause
The Armed Esthete is a book about poet-warriors who fought in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
These poet-warriors were fascinated by utopias and attracted to the epic of tragedy.
The Spanish Civil War was a significant event that influenced the armed esthetes of Europe. [ more ]