Title: Articles of war : a collection of American poetry about World War II /
Authors: Stokesbury, Leon, 1945-
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: American poetry; World War, 1939-1945 Poetry.; War poetry, American.
Abstract: A collection of American poetry about World War II by fifty-two poets.
Contents: 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 ledge.