Download or read book Poets Against War written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun by poet Sam Hamill in reaction to an invitation to attend First Lady Laura Bush's White House Symposium "Poetry and the American Voice" on February 12, 2003 (subsequently canceled), site contains poems or personal statements from over 4,600 poets to register their opposition to the Bush administration's policies toward war in Iraq. Allows for the submission of new poems and also provides links to anti-war activities, news items and other anti-war organizations.
Download or read book The War Against Poetry written by Russell A. Fraser and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attack on poetry and the theater which occurred in England during the 16th and 17th centuries has been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations. This "war against poetry" was, in Professor Fraser's view, part of a larger cultural movement: the disengagement of the modern world from its medieval antecedents. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book First World War Poetry written by Jon Silkin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.
Download or read book Cold War Poetry written by Edward Brunner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstream American poetry of the 1950s has long been dismissed as deliberately indifferent to its cultural circumstances. In this penetrating study, Edward Brunner breaks the placid surface of the hollow decade to reveal a poetry sharply responsive to issues of its time. Cold War Poetry considers the fifties poem as part of a dual cultural project: as proof of the competency of the newly professionalized poet and as a user-friendly way of initiating a newly educated, upwardly mobile postwar audience into high culture. Brunner revisits Richard Wilbur, Randall Jarrell, and other acknowledged leaders of the period as well as neglected writers such as Rosalie Moore, V. R. Lang, Katherine Hoskins, Melvin B. Tolson, and Hyam Plutzik. He also examines the one-sided authority of the (male-dominated) book review process, the ostracizing of female and minority poets, poetic fads such as the ubiquitous sestina, and the power of the classroom anthology to establish criteria for reading. Attributing the gradual change in poetic style during the 1950s to the slow collapse of the authority of the state, Brunner shows how a secretive, anxious poetics developed in the shadow of a disabled government. He recontextualizes the much-maligned domestic verse of the 1950s, reading its shift toward the private sphere and the recurrent image of the child as a reflection of the powerlessness of the post-nuclear citizen. Through a close examination of poetry written about the Bomb, he delineates how poets registered their growing sense of cosmic disorder in coded language, resorting to subterfuge to continue their critique in the face of sanctions levied against those who questioned government policies. Brilliantly decoding the politics embedded in the poetry of an ostensibly apolitical time, Cold War Poetry provides a powerful rereading of a pivotal decade.
Download or read book American War Poetry written by Lorrie Goldensohn and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged by war, the book begins with the Colonial period and proceeds through Whitman admiring Civil War soldiers crossing a river to end with Brian Turner, who published his first book in 2005, beckoning a bullet in contemporary Iraq.
Download or read book Poetry of the First World War written by Tim Kendall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.
Download or read book Winning Hearts Minds War Poems by Vietnam Veterans written by Larry Rottmann and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by Vietnam War veterans.
Download or read book Here Bullet written by Brian Turner and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.
Download or read book The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry written by Richard Marius and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry, prose, photos, and songs of the Civil War. The authors range from hawks to doves. In the former category, James Madison Bell wrote: "The pleasing duty still remains / To sing a people from their chains."
Download or read book Carrying the Darkness written by William Daniel Ehrhart and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Vietnam War poetry, featuring the work of seventy-five poets.
Download or read book The Day War Came written by Nicola Davies and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis coming soon.......
Download or read book Behind the Lines written by Philip Metres and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Behind the lines investigates American war resistance poetry from the Second World War through the Iraq wars, arguing that it gets to the heart of who is authorized to speak about war and how it can be represented." -- Book jacket.
Download or read book Minds at War written by David Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War cast its shadow over the 20th century. The poets were those most gifted to record the personal, moral and spiritual impact of those traumatic years. This anthology contains 250 poems by 80 poets, including photographs & maps.
Download or read book Articles of War written by Leon Stokesbury and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of American poetry about World War II by fifty-two poets.
Download or read book War n pieces written by Leo Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: war{n}pieces is the sixth book and second collection of poetry from acclaimed author Leo Jenkins. Fifteen years have passed since Leo was a U.S. Army Ranger medic in Iraq and Afghanistan - fifteen years of reflection, of death and triumph, of struggle and overcoming. war{n}pieces is a poetic journey from war through love to redemption.
Download or read book Great Poets of World War I written by Jon Stallworthy and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully illustrated collection of critical analysis of poetry from World War I commemorates the great poetic voices produced by this terrible conflict, including such noted writers as Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owe, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, and other notables.
Download or read book Armistice written by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice' its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search for truce and ceasefire. In 100 poems, our most cherished poets of the Great War speak alongside those from other conflicts and cultures, so that we hear some of the lesser-heard voices of war, including wives, families, those left behind. These poems of war and peace memorialise the horror and the tragedy of conflict. At the same time, in armistice, they become a record of renewal and a testimony to hope.
