Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780892553105)

For the first time, in one volume, the rich canon of American war poems, from "Yankee Doodle" to Robert Creeley's "Ground Zero." This unique, comprehensive anthology gathers together more than two hundred poems about the American experience of warnarratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, tributes, and battle hymnsmany of them classics. Written by soldier-poets as well as poets on the home front, they are deeply personal, reflecting love of country, sacrifice, tragedy, glory, and sometimes disillusionment or dissent. Arranged chronologically, virtually every conflict is included: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, September 11, and the present war in Iraq. Among the 140 poets are Longfellow, Wheatley, Dunbar, Bryant, Emerson, Thoreau, Crane, Dickinson, Melville, Whitman, Whittier, Masters, Bogan, Lindsay, Cummings, Eliot, Frost, Lowell, Pound, Sandburg, Bishop, Hughes, Levertov, Stevens, Williams, Bly, Creeley, Ginsberg, Harper, Paley, Rich, Warren, Komunyakaa, Weigl, and Collins. A major historical, cultural, and literary volume, Old Glory speaks from the depth of time as well as from the immediacy of our own moment.

Author: Robert Hedin
ISBN-10: 0892553103
ISBN-13: 9780892553105
Publisher: Persea Books
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2004
Pages: 370
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.28w x 1.09d
Award: Minnesota Book Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2004 pg. 86
Kliatt 11/01/2004 pg. 30