Poets of World War II /
Poets of World War II /
Poets of World War 2 Poets of World War Two
Harvey Shapiro, editor
- New York : Library of America, c2003
- xxxii, 262 p. ; 20 cm
- American poets project .
Includes bibliographical references and index
Defeat / Witter Bynner -- from Canto LXXXIII / Ezra Pound -- R.A.F. / H.D. -- Pearl Harbor / Robinson Jeffers -- "Keeping their world large" / Marianne Moore -- Three star final / Conrad Aiken -- from By the well of living and seeing / Charles Reznikoff -- "When he was small, when he would fall" / Vladimir Nabokov -- Ode to our young pro-consuls of the air / Allen Tate -- To a military rifle / Yvor Winter) -- Witness / Eve Triem -- Fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart -- from A song for the year's end / Louis Zukovsky -- Careless love / Stanley Kunitz -- September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden -- Snatch / Lincoln Kirstein -- Survival, Infantry / George Oppen -- Rifle range, Louisiana / Charles E. Butler -- Pacific / Robert Fitzgerald -- Three American women and a German bayonet / Winfield Townley Scott -- Spool / Ben Belitt -- Cith of beggars / Alfred Hayes -- Airman who flew over Shakespeare's England / Hyam Plutzik -- Raid / William Everson -- Blinding of Isaac Woodard / Woody Guthrie -- Navigator / May Sarton -- Shot down at night / John Frederick Nims -- Scyros / Karl Shapiro -- Moon and the night and the men / John Berryman -- Jethro Somes' apostrophe to his former comrades / John Pauker -- Mined country / Richard Wilbur -- Firebombing / James Dickey -- Stentor and mourning / Alan Dugan -- Still life / Anthony Hecht -- Where we crashed / Richard Hugo -- Arm in arm / Louis Simpson -- Stoic, for Laura Von Courten / Edgar Bowers -- World War II / Edward Field -- Mothball fleet, Benicia, California / John Haines -- War stories / Harvey Shapiro -- Sniper / Lucien Stryk -- To carelessness / Kenneth Koch -- Beachhead / Samuel Menashe -- Ten days leave / W.D. Snodgrass -- Lost pilot / James Tate
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
9781931082334 1931082332
2002032125
American poetry--20th century
World War, 1939-1945--Poetry
PS595.W64 / P65 2003
Includes bibliographical references and index
Defeat / Witter Bynner -- from Canto LXXXIII / Ezra Pound -- R.A.F. / H.D. -- Pearl Harbor / Robinson Jeffers -- "Keeping their world large" / Marianne Moore -- Three star final / Conrad Aiken -- from By the well of living and seeing / Charles Reznikoff -- "When he was small, when he would fall" / Vladimir Nabokov -- Ode to our young pro-consuls of the air / Allen Tate -- To a military rifle / Yvor Winter) -- Witness / Eve Triem -- Fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart -- from A song for the year's end / Louis Zukovsky -- Careless love / Stanley Kunitz -- September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden -- Snatch / Lincoln Kirstein -- Survival, Infantry / George Oppen -- Rifle range, Louisiana / Charles E. Butler -- Pacific / Robert Fitzgerald -- Three American women and a German bayonet / Winfield Townley Scott -- Spool / Ben Belitt -- Cith of beggars / Alfred Hayes -- Airman who flew over Shakespeare's England / Hyam Plutzik -- Raid / William Everson -- Blinding of Isaac Woodard / Woody Guthrie -- Navigator / May Sarton -- Shot down at night / John Frederick Nims -- Scyros / Karl Shapiro -- Moon and the night and the men / John Berryman -- Jethro Somes' apostrophe to his former comrades / John Pauker -- Mined country / Richard Wilbur -- Firebombing / James Dickey -- Stentor and mourning / Alan Dugan -- Still life / Anthony Hecht -- Where we crashed / Richard Hugo -- Arm in arm / Louis Simpson -- Stoic, for Laura Von Courten / Edgar Bowers -- World War II / Edward Field -- Mothball fleet, Benicia, California / John Haines -- War stories / Harvey Shapiro -- Sniper / Lucien Stryk -- To carelessness / Kenneth Koch -- Beachhead / Samuel Menashe -- Ten days leave / W.D. Snodgrass -- Lost pilot / James Tate
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
9781931082334 1931082332
2002032125
American poetry--20th century
World War, 1939-1945--Poetry
PS595.W64 / P65 2003