| Description |
xxxii, 262 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
American poets project |
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American poets project.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Witter Bynner / Defeat -- Ezra Pound / from Canto LXXXIII -- H.D. / R.A.F. -- Robinson Jeffers / Pearl Harbor -- The Bloody Sire -- Marianne Moore / "Keeping Their World Large" -- Conrad Aiken / Three Star Final -- Charles Reznikoff / from By the Well of Living and Seeing -- Vladimir Nabokov / "When he was small, when he would fall" -- Allen Tate / Ode to Our Young Pro-consuls of the Air -- Yvor Winters / To a Military Rifle -- Moonlight Alert -- Night of Battle -- Eve Triem / The Witness -- Richard Eberhart / The Fury of Aerial Bombardment -- A Ceremony by the Sea -- from Aesthetics After War: Instruments -- Louis Zukofsky / from A Song for the Year's End -- Stanley Kunitz / Reflection by a Mailbox -- Careless Love -- W.H. Auden / September 1, 1939 -- Lincoln Kirstein / Snatch -- Patton -- Rank -- P.O.E. -- George Oppen / Survival: Infantry -- from Of Being Numerous -- Charles E. Butler / Rifle Range: Louisiana -- Robert Fitzgerald / Pacific -- Amphibians -- Winfield Townley Scott / Three American Women and a German Bayonet -- Ben Belitt / The Spool -- Alfred Hayes / The City of Beggars -- Hyam Plutzik / The Airman Who Flew Over Shakespeare's England -- William Everson / The Raid -- Woody Guthrie / The Blinding of Isaac Woodard -- May Sarton / Navigator -- John Frederick Nims / Shot Down at Night -- Karl Shapiro / Scyros -- Troop Train -- Full Moon: New Guinea -- Lord, I Have Seen Too Much -- Homecoming -- John Berryman / The Moon and the Night and the Men -- Randall Jarrell / Eighth Air Force -- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- Transient Barracks -- O My Name It Is Sam Hall -- A Camp in the Prussian Forest -- Weldon Kees / June 1940 -- The City as Hero -- William Stafford / At the Grave of My Brother: Bomber Pilot -- Explaining the Big One -- Some Remarks When Richard Hugo Came -- Men -- Edward R. Weismiller / To the Woman in Bond Street Station -- John Ciardi / Song -- Elegy Just in Case -- V-J Day -- A Box Comes Home -- Elegy for a Cove Full of Bones -- Thomas McGrath / Homecoming -- Rememberting That Island -- Peter Viereck / Kilroy -- "Vale" from Carthage -- Ripeness Is All -- Peter Bowman / from Beach Red -- Gwendolyn Brooks / Negro Hero -- Robert Lowell / On the Eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception: 1942 -- The Bomber -- Memories of West Street and Lepke -- William Bronk / Soldiers in Death -- Memorial -- William Jay Smith / Epithalaminum in Olive Drab -- Pidgin Pinch -- Columbus Circle Swing -- Robert Duncan / A Spring Memorandum: Fort Knox -- William Meredith / Navy Field -- Love letter from an Impossible Land -- Simile -- Ann Darr / Flight as a Way of Life -- Howard Nemerov / A Fable of the War -- A Memory of the War -- Night Operations, Coastal Command RAF -- The War in the Air -- IFF -- Hayden Carruth / On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul -- John Pauker / Jethro Somes' Apostrophe to His Former Comrades -- Richard Wilbur / Mined Country -- First Snow in Alsace -- Place Pigalle -- James Dickey / The Firebombing -- Alan Dugan / Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh Is Over -- Portrait from the Infantry -- Self-Exhortation on Military Themes -- Stentor and Mourning -- Anthony Hecht / from Rites and Ceremonies: The Room -- "More Light! More Light!" -- Still Life -- Richard Hugo / Where We Crashed -- Spinizzola: Quella Cantina La -- Note from Capri to Richard Ryan on the Adriatic Floor -- Louis Simpson / Arm in Arm -- Carentan O Carentan -- Memories of a Lost War -- Old Soldier -- On the Ledge -- A Bower of Roses -- Edgar Bowers / The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten -- Edward Field / World War II -- John Haines / Mothball Fleet: Benicia, California -- Harvey Shapiro / Battle Report -- War Stories -- Lucien Stryk / Sniper -- Kenneth Koch / To Carelessness -- To World War Two -- Samuel Menashe / Beachhead -- W.D. Snodgrass / Ten Days Leave -- Returned to Frisco, 1946 -- James Tate / The Lost Pilot. |
| Summary |
This anthology brings together 120 poems about World War II by 62 American poets, chosen, as editor Harvey Shapiro writes in his introduction, "with a purpose: to demonstrate that the American poets of this war produced a body of work that has not yet been recognized for its clean and powerful eloquence." The poets are generally unsentimental, ironic, and often astonished by what they have experienced, and their insights still have the power to shake up our perceptions of that war and of war in general. Most of the poets included in the volume served in the armed forces; some -- Louis Simpson, Anthony Hecht, Kenneth Koch -- saw combat in the infantry, while others -- James Dickey, Howard Nemerov, Richard Hugo, John Ciardi -- fought in the air. Also included: poets who experienced the war as civilians, including Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, and Conrad Aiken; poems by conscientious objectors and draft resisters, including William Stafford and Robert Lowell; and an elegy by James Tate for his father, who was killed in action when Tate was an infant. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Poetry.
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Weltkrieg <1939-1945, Motiv>
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Lyrik.
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United States.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Author |
Shapiro, Harvey, 1924-2013.
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| Added Title |
Poets of World War 2 |
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Poets of World War Two |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Poets of World War II. New York : Library of America, ©2003 (OCoLC)606932081 |
| ISBN |
1931082332 |
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9781931082334 |
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