Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Home Front Since 1941 by Philip Metres

Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Home Front Since 1941

Contemporary North American Poetry (University of Iowa Press)

Philip Metres

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nonfiction poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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Whether Thersites in Homer's Iliad, Wilfred Owen in "Dulce et Decorum Est," or Allen Ginsberg in "Wichita Vortex Sutra," poets have long given solitary voice against the brutality of war. The hasty cancellation of the 2003 White House symposium "P...

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