“I was trying to understand why people find those Confederate monuments so moving and why they are so powerful for so many people.
They totally ignore slavery as they try to romanticize and idealize the past,” Kempf said. They were designed by individual artists and the statues are quite striking, even as they enshrine a horrible cause. I was really interested in the Confederate monuments. They were produced by government committees. “The Union monuments are relatively boring. He also was interested in examining how history gets remembered and reproduced through art, such as the monuments and the Gettysburg Cyclorama. “I wanted the book to be close to the experience of the individual soldier and capture the materiality of what it was like to have been a soldier, capture their feelings,” he said. Kempf’s poems were influenced by the language on the monuments at Gettysburg National Military Park, as well as letters written by soldiers who fought at Gettysburg and eyewitness accounts of the battle.
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