# The Deadmen and Other Poems

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**Author:** Patricia Sharpe
 **Pages:** 89 **Year of Publication:** 2002 **Price:**
HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 **ISBN:** HB 81-7595-860-X (817595860X) FB 81-7595-861-8 (8175958618)

**_ About the Author:_**
 Patricia L. Shapre has lived and worked in many countries
as a scholar, journalist and foreign service officer, especially India and elsewhere
in South Asia, the area which has made itself her second home.

**_Teaser:_**

_Ironemia_

You want me to be i-
 ronic, to approach by in- direction and speak (if I must) 
through un- derstatement. Anything else, (you say) is un- poetic, like a boot stomping
a violet, I suppose. But facing killers, I say: NO! Having lied in the lands of 
the un- derfed and the un enfranchised and the in- defensible, I say it again: NO!
Real poems don’t rage? Can’t carry the pain of an arm macheteed off, shock the only
anesthetic? Can’t fix on the frozen eyes of Missy Pigtail Watching a denim shirt
go red as shells make a sieve of daddypoppafather’s chest?

Wouldn’t
 stoop to playing back, un- damped the primal scream that erupts when memory
gets un- plugged and horrible things rush out? This coyness that’s praised, this
pastelized soft porn that never groans or grunts or barfs this pay dirt for scholars
and critics in- tervening to in- terpret for the masses, is it elegant in- direction
or evasion? delicacy or anemia? ambiguity or simple lack of care?

**_Contents:_**

Ironemia / 9
 The Deadmen / 11 Attack / 21 Adolescent / 23 Men’s Games / 24 Color
Blind / 26 Refugee Camp / 27 Cleaning up / 28 The Holy Terror / 29 Honor Killing/
30 Here in Cold Country / 31 Climbing Mt. Bernal / 32 The Desolation / 38 Snails/
39 Campfire Story / 40 Tea Break / 41 The Good Book / 43 Kakata / 45 Boxes / 49 
Reflections / 55 Agon / 58 Bionic Woman / 60 After Dinner Speaker / 62 Between Acts/
64 Hissstory / 77 Hogging the Truth / 77