The Four Hard Edges of War

By Andre de Korvin

The Four Hard Edges of War is Andre de Korvin's brilliant book length poem exploring pre and post World War II. In his words: "The Four Hard Edges of War explores the shattered mirror. It starts at the outer edges, which are light years away from the impact point. Then it moves inward where economic and social dislocation permeate our lives. Moving closer we can see no further than a lifetime. At the center lies the instant when we walked away with pieces of the mirror in our heart."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 31, 2014
• ISBN: 9781304960658

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The Four Hard Edges of War

THE FOUR HARD EDGES OF WAR

Andre de Korvin

Copyright © 1990 by André de Korvin

Second edition

ISBN: 978-1-304-96065-8

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Photograph by Carol Rowe DeBender

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To my wife Marianne

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I was born in Berlin, four years before World War II.  My parents were Russian Emigrés and left for Paris a few days before the start of war.  I grew up to be Franco-Russian, that is, I acquired a state of mind that was neither French nor Russian.

In 1960, we emigrated, again, to the States.  We came to Los Angeles.  I walked in the smog.  My father passed away six years later.  I got married the next year.  My mother almost finished putting together my father’s archives which were to be sent to Yale.  She passed away in 1975. I finished my mother’s work and the archives are now at the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

Many of my friends have asked me ‘What did your father write about?’ My father