![]() Wiles divides the text into the four days leading up to the shootings, and eulogizes each of the four massacred students. ![]() ![]() Font, size, and spacing set off the distinct, often conflicting, perspectives, thoughtfully underscoring each. The narrative begins as a lament and immediately draws the reader into the events with voices from varied points of view, including students, townspeople, the National Guard, and the Black United Students of Kent State. Wiles (the Sixties Trilogy) sets the stage with a narrative prelude that contextualizes the campus unrest alongside the draft and seemingly unwinnable Vietnam War, and details how the incursion into neutral Cambodia further escalated tensions. ![]() Via many perspectives, this powerful free verse work explores the Kent State University shootings that shocked the U.S. ![]()
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