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Behind the lines : war resistance poetry on the American homefront since 1941 / Philip Metres.
Title:
Behind the lines : war resistance poetry on the American homefront since 1941 / Philip Metres.
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Publication:
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007]
Publication Date:
2007
ISBN:
9780877459989
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index.
Contents:
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:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Language:
English
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