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Articles of war, a collection of American poetry about World War II, edited by Leon Stokesbury ; introduction by Paul Fussell

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Articles of war

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edited by Leon Stokesbury ; introduction by Paul Fussell

a collection of American poetry about World War II

A collection of American poetry about World War II by fifty-two poets

Pearl Harbor / Robinson Jeffers -- In distrust of merits / Marianne Moore -- The young dead soldiers / Archibald MacLeish -- plato told him / E.E. Cummings -- The fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhardt -- The portents; Soldiers asleep; V-day; Ballad of fine days; Landscape without figures; The mixture as before / Phyllis McGinley -- September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden -- Rank; Foresight; Vet; Gusts; Interpreter/ Patton; Hijack; Tent-mates / Lincoln Kirstein -- The U.S. sailor with the Japanese skull / Winfield Townley Scott -- I don't want to startle you / Kenneth Patchen -- The raid / William Everson -- Navigator / May Sarton -- Troop train; Elegy for a dead soldier; Fox hole; Homecoming; After the war; Human nature / Karl Shapiro -- Belsen, day of liberation / Robert Hayden -- Eighth Air Force; A front; The death of the ball turret gunner; Mail call; A war; The range in the desert; The lines; A field hospital / Randall Jarrell -- June 1940 / Weldon Kees -- The moon and the night and the men / John Berryman -- Vale from Carthage; Kilroy; Ripness is all / Peter Viereck -- Return; Elegy for a cove full of bones; Elegy just in case; Sea burial; Ona photo of Sgt. Ciardi a year later; A box comes home; Visibility zero; V-J Day /John Ciardi -- Memories of West Street and lepke / Robert Lowell -- Black cross; White cross / Reed Whittemore -- Airman's virtue / William Meredith -- Redeployment; A memory of the war; World lines; Night operations, coastal comman RAF; The war in the air; The faith; IFF; A fable of the war / Howard Nemerov -- Tywater; Place Pigalle; First snow in Alsace; Mined country / Richard Wilbur -- "More light! More light!" / Anthony Hecht -- The performance; The enclosure; The firebombing; Drinking from a helmet / James Dickey -- Delinquent Elegy / Donald W. Baker -- Portrait from the infantry / Alan Dugan -- Carentan O Carentan; The battle; Memories of a lost war; The bird; On the ledgeA bower of roses / Louis Simpson -- Mission to Linz; Where we crashed / Richard Hugo -- The stoic : for Laura von Courten; Clothes / Edgar Bowers -- Sniper; The face; Watching war movies; Letter to Jean-Paul Baudot at Christmas; Rooms / Lucien Stryk -- World War II / Edward Field -- Ten days leave; "After experience taught me ... "; Magda Goebbels -- 30 April 1945; Returned to Frisco, 1946 / W.D. Snodgrass -- The man in the dead machine / Donald Hall -- U-24 anchors off New Orleans / Turner Cassity -- Wiedersehen / Miller Williams -- The brother / Larry Rubin -- The behaviorist; The faucets / Van K. Brock -- Windward of Hilo / John N. Miller -- The winter they bombed Pearl Harbor / Walter McDonald -- He remembers something from the war / James Whitehead -- Spit / C.K. Williams -- Sleeping out with my father / Gibbons Ruark -- War baby; Home front; Sunday school lesson from Capt. Daniel Mayhew; USAAF, Ret.; G.I. Joe from Kokomo / William Trowbridge -- The lost pilot / James Tate -- Coming home; River stories / Dorothy Coffin Sussman -- Randolph Field / R.S. Gwynn -- The anniversary / David Bottoms -- Leningrad / Edward Hirsch -- Air view of an industrial scene / Andrew Hudgins -- Welcome to Hiroshima / Mary Jo Salter -- The story I can't tell / P.H. Liotta