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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" class="featured-image img-wrapper full-width" align=center><A style="RIGHT: auto" class=img-link title="Not About Heroes" href="http://www.wordstageoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sassoon+Owen1.jpg" jQuery1102049681358556037563="5" data-rel="prettyPhoto"></A> <B>In celebration of National Poetry Month</B><!-- end .featured-image --></DIV>
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<H4 style="RIGHT: auto" class="featured-image img-wrapper full-width" align=center><FONT color=#111111 size=5>Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen – Poets of the Trenches</FONT></H4></B></HEADER style="RIGHT: auto">
<H3 style="RIGHT: auto" class=entry-content align=center><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#0000bf>Sunday, April 6, 2014 | 2pm<BR></FONT><BR><SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>Beachwood</SPAN> Branch of <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Cuyahoga</SPAN> County Public Library<BR>25501 Shaker Blvd.</H3>
<div style="RIGHT: auto" class=entry-content>It was an amazing coincidence that Britain’s two strongest World War I anti-war soldiers and literary figures should meet at the infamous <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>Craiglockhart</SPAN> War Hospital for those men wounded in mind, body or both. But meet they did and formed a lasting creative and affectionate friendship until Owen’s tragic death in France just before the end of the fighting. Together they served as alternately teacher and pupil as they explored and expanded each others literary horizons.</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto" class=entry-content>The text of this performance is taken largely from some of their most powerful poems and excerpted from Stephen MacDonald’s critically acclaimed play, “ Not About Heroes”, written about these two comrades in arms and in life. The readings will be subtly underscored by the music of <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Rebecca</SPAN> Clarke and Benjamin Britten, who used Wilfred Owen’s evocative poetry in the composition of his magnificent “War Requiem.”</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto" class=entry-content align=center><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" color=#0000bf><B>Sponsored by the Friends of the Library <BR>Free and open to all!<BR>Reservations at <A style="RIGHT: auto" href="http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/">http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/</A> <BR>or call 216-831-6868.<BR>Seating is on a first come first serve basis!</B></FONT></div>
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