"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": With quiet modesty, David Jones introduces one of the grandest imaginative efforts to grapple with World War I. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter-speech and high music, Jones creates a panoramic picture of a hellish world of interminable waiting and unforeseen death, while remaining alert to the humanity that lights up even the wasteland of war. In Parenthesis, his Anathemata is considered one of the major works of twentieth-century poetry.