... experience of George Yeats, the poet’s wife, whose near death from influenza Outka sees transposed into imagery resonant with a “pregnancy-centered horror flick” (172) at the end of “The Second Coming”; revisions across drafts of the poem that “stripped the violence of its human agency” (173); and...

...Brian Dillon Review “Have you no regard for oblivion?” Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War: Women’s Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic by Jane Fisher Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 262 pages Brian Dillon Nearly a century after an influenza epidemic began in the final months of...