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American War Poetry: An Anthology
Lorrie Goldensohn (Ed.)
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Description for American War Poetry: An Anthology
Hardback. Covers the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and the Gulf Wars. This anthology presents four centuries of American men and women-soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians-writing about war. It covers the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnamese-American War. Editor(s): Goldensohn, Lorrie. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 750.
American War Poetry spans the history of the nation. Beginning with the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and ending with the Gulf Wars, this original and significant anthology presents four centuries of American men and women-soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians-writing about war. American War Poetry opens with a ballad by a freed African American slave commenting on a skirmish with Indians in a Massachusetts meadow. Poems on the American Revolution follow, as well as poems on "minor" conflicts like the Mexican War and the Spanish-American Wars. This compact anthology has generous selections on the Civil War, World Wars I ... Read more
American War Poetry spans the history of the nation. Beginning with the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and ending with the Gulf Wars, this original and significant anthology presents four centuries of American men and women-soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians-writing about war. American War Poetry opens with a ballad by a freed African American slave commenting on a skirmish with Indians in a Massachusetts meadow. Poems on the American Revolution follow, as well as poems on "minor" conflicts like the Mexican War and the Spanish-American Wars. This compact anthology has generous selections on the Civil War, World Wars I ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231133104
SKU
V9780231133104
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About Lorrie Goldensohn (Ed.)
Lorrie Goldensohn is most recently the author of Dismantling Glory: Twentieth-Century Soldier Poetry, which was nominated for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry received a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. Her poetry and critical essays have appeared in journals and periodicals since 1965.
Reviews for American War Poetry: An Anthology
These fascinating poems... put into sharp relief America's complex, conflicted, and evolving attitudes toward war. Ploughshares A sterling collection of verse from the colonial wars to today. VVA Veteran Original and significant. readysteadybook.com [American War Poetry] offers the works of nearly 200 of America's greatest poets. Library Journal This unique, remarkable anthology of war poetry embraces every major conflict of ... Read more