Behind the lines : war resistance poetry on the American homefront since 1941 / Philip Metres.
by
Metres, Philip, 1970-
Title
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Behind the lines : war resistance poetry on the American homefront since 1941 / Philip Metres.
Personal Author
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Metres, Philip, 1970-
Publication
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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007]
Copyright
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©2007
Publication Date
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2007
ISBN
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9780877459989
Series Search
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Contemporary North American poetry series.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.
Contents
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Part 1. World War II: the poetics of conscientious objection -- Robert Lowell's refusals: memories of war resistance in prison -- William Stafford's lost landmarks: the poetics of Pacifism and the limits of lyric -- William Everson and the Fine Arts Camp: from Utopian hopes to a chronicle of division -- Part 2. Vietnam: the war on the homefront -- Bringing it all back home: from anthology to action -- Denise Levertov's distant witness: the politics of identification -- Part 3. The Persian Gulf War: protest and the postmodern -- The Gump War: lyric resistance poetry in crisis -- June Jordan's righteous certainty: poetic address in resistance poetry -- Barrett Watten's bad history: a counter-epic of the Gulf War -- Coda. Proliferations: sites of resistance since September 11, 2001.
Content Type
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text
Carrier Type
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volume
Language
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English
Subject
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Protest poetry, American -- History and criticism.
Anti-war poetry, American -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
War in literature.
| Library | Call Number | Format | Status |
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| MSU-Mitchell Memorial Library | PS309.P7 M45 2007 | Book | Circulating Collection |