What The Thunder Said by Jed Rasula Iliad This selection from von Törne's

This selection from von Törne's collected poems is particularly significant in that it is a powerful and moving articulation of the psychological burden still carried by countless people today whose voices are not often heard

- Khairani Barokka

sensuously and sometimes messily

The poems – by writers from many parts of the world – have emotional power

as the poet says

What The Thunder Said by Jed Rasula Iliad This selection from von Törne'sWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty four year old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. But, as Jed Rasula writes, The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern. In What the Thunder Said, Rasula tells the story