Poets of World War II / Harvey Shapiro, editor.
2003
PS595.W64 P65 2003
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Title
Poets of World War II / Harvey Shapiro, editor.
ISBN
1931082332
9781931082334
9781931082334
Imprint
New York : Library of America, ©2003.
Description
xxxii, 264 pages ; 20 cm.
Exhibited
2003 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PS595.W64 P65 2003
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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