Spring Comes To Chicago by Campbell McGrath

James Connolly, Padraig Pearse, and a dozen other leaders The Easter Rebellion of the Irish Republican Brotherhoodįails to inspire a popular uprising and is quickly suppressed The Tsar’s control is crumbling, Revolution is imminent. Rasputin dies under mysterious circumstances in Saint Petersburg Margaret Sanger opens the first American birth control clinic.

Louis Armstrong is driving a coal wagon in New Orleans, Of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosions- is born. Tsutomo Yamaguchi- the only officially recognized survivor How else can art represent this world’s grotesque absurdity? It is tempting to imagine him happening upon the Cabaret Voltaire, Of Monopoly Capitalism, a contest for markets and cheap labor. While Lenin argues that Imperialism is a final-state corollary In Zurich, Tristan Tzara edits the first issue of the journal Dada, With the Artist’s Rifles, within sight of Yeats’ house Ĭompleting his training he lodges above the Poet’s BookshopĪnd ships out in December for the “seventh hell” of the frontĪs a Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Manchester infantry. Wilfred Owen is still in England,ĭigging practice trenches on Tavistock Square War, the human antithesis of art even his subversive geniusĬannot reconcile the two, though seldom have death and poetryīeen so intimate. He is sent home to Paris to recuperate, with a hole in his skull.įor years he has beaten the drum for modern artĪnd now martial drums have swept everything before them. In March, Apollinaire receives a shrapnel wound in the temple Seventy thousand men will fall each month until December. Is introduced as a tool of destruction phosgene gas is introduced Īirplanes, for the first time, operate in organized squadrons. Of obdurate surfaces, a pulverization of will, a blind slaughterīy distant artillery of helpless men huddled in freezing mud.ĭeath is invisible, impersonal, mechanical: the flamethrower Two million shells are fired in five days death is a grinding down Just before sunrise on February 21stīombardments for the German attack at Verdun commence

Spring Comes To Chicago by Campbell McGrath