Michael Sarnowski (MFA ’09) Releases Debut Book with LSU Press
Michael Sarnowski (MFA ’09) has released his debut book, A New Way of Seeing: Distance and Traumatic Memory in the Poetry of World War II. Grab a copy at your local bookstore today or visit the Vanderbilt Bookstore!
A New Way of Seeing considers the poetry of five writers—Louis Simpson, Keith Douglas, Richard Hugo, Howard Nemerov, and Randall Jarrell— whose work draws on their activities as soldiers in World War II. Basing his examination on extensive primary-source research, Michael Sarnowski identifies distance, both literal and figurative, and traumatic memory as two interconnected elements of how these poets internalized the war and made sense of the events they witnessed. By exploring how poets processed their wartime experiences, A New Way of Seeing offers a stark reminder of why it remains vital to recognize the physical, mental, and psychological consequences endured by veterans.
Michael Sarnowski is a writer, researcher, and educator. His poetry has appeared in Potomac Review, Memoir Journal, Spry Literary Journal, and Whiskey Island, among others, and his peer-reviewed journal articles have been published in the Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, Humanities, and War, Literature, and the Arts. Michael has taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Vanderbilt University, Le Moyne College, and Liverpool Hope University. He has also served as a Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Kingston University London and a writing resident at the Vermont Studio Center. He was born in Rochester, New York and currently lives in Liverpool, England where he earned his PhD in English Literature as a Vice-Chancellor’s PhD Scholar at Liverpool Hope University.
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