Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War in Iraq

by Robert Hedin (Editor), Walter Cronkite (Foreword by)

Overview

For the first time, in one volume, the rich canon of American war poems, from "Yankee Doodle" to Robert Creeley's "Ground Zero." This unique, comprehensive anthology gathers together more than two hundred poems about the American experience of warnarratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, tributes, and battle hymnsmany of them classics. Written by soldier-poets as well as poets on the home front, they are deeply personal, reflecting love of country, sacrifice, tragedy, glory, and sometimes disillusionment or dissent. Arranged chronologically, virtually every conflict is included: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, September 11, and the present war in Iraq. Among the 140 poets are Longfellow, Wheatley, Dunbar, Bryant, Emerson, Thoreau, Crane, Dickinson, Melville, Whitman, Whittier, Masters, Bogan, Lindsay, Cummings, Eliot, Frost, Lowell, Pound, Sandburg, Bishop, Hughes, Levertov, Stevens, Williams, Bly, Creeley, Ginsberg, Harper, Paley, Rich, Warren, Komunyakaa, Weigl, and Collins. A major historical, cultural, and literary volume, Old Glory speaks from the depth of time as well as from the immediacy of our own moment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892553105
Publisher:	Persea
Publication date:	07/17/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	xvii
	Revolutionary War
	Paul Revere's Ride	5
	Yankee Doodle	9
	To His Excellency General Washington	12
	Warren's Address to the American Soldiers	14
	Song of Marion's Men	15
	Black Samson of Brandywine	17
	The Yankee Man-of-War	19
	from The British Prison Ship	21
	To the Memory of the Brave Americans	23
	from The Columbiad	25
	New England's Dead	27
	Concord Hymn	29
	War of 1812
	from The Battle of Niagara	33
	On the Conflagrations at Washington	36
	The Star-Spangled Banner	40
	Old Ironsides	42
	Mexican-American War
	Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing	45
	The Angels of Buena Vista	48
	from The Biglow Papers	51
	When with Pale Cheek and Sunken Eye I Sang	53
	Civil War
	In the Defences	57
	John Brown's Body	60
	The March into Virginia	61
	A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight	62
	The College Colonel	63
	Battle Hymn of the Republic	65
	Barbara Frietchie	66
	Fredericksburg	69
	The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson	70
	The High Tide at Gettysburg	72
	The Battlefield	75
	Corporal	76
	Sheridan's Ride	77
	Cavalry Crossing a Ford	79
	Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	79
	The Wound-Dresser	80
	My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums	83
	My Portion Is Defeat Today	84
	Ode to the Confederate Dead	85
	Memorial Wreath	88
	For the Union Dead	89
	Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	92
	Indian Wars
	Unknown	97
	Wildwest	99
	A Tribute to Chief Joseph (1840?-1904)	101
	Two War Songs	103
	Last Song	103
	Interpolation Sounds	104
	The Whole World Is Coming	105
	Spanish-American War
	Harry Wilmans	109
	On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines	110
	Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind	111
	First World War
	Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight	115
	The Aisne (1914-15)	117
	Rendezvous	119
	Verdun	120
	Trophy, W.W.I	121
	Patterns	123
	Not to Keep	126
	i sing of Olaf glad and big	127
	my sweet old etcetera	128
	Chateau de Soupir, 1917	130
	In the Dordogne	132
	Champs d'Honneur	134
	Killed Piave--July 8--1918	134
	The Death of a Soldier	135
	Memorial Rain	136
	On Active Service	138
	My Brother	139
	To My Brother Killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918	140
	Mothers	141
	The People's Cry	141
	from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	143
	Triumphal March	145
	Grass	147
	There Will Come Soft Rains	148
	The Wars and the Unknown Soldier	149
	Second World War
	Roosters	155
	Czecho-Slovakia	160
	The Moon and the Night and the Men	161
	The Last Picnic	163
	Jim Crow's Last Stand	164
	War, the Destroyer!	166
	After Experience Taught Me ...	168
	The U.S. Soldier with the Japanese Skull	170
	The Searchlight	172
	The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	173
	The War in the Air	174
	Losses	175
	The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	176
	Memories of West Street and Lepke	177
	No Man Knows War	179
	World War II	180
	Un Bel Di Vedremo	185
	Remembering That Island	187
	The Pit	188
	Portrait from the Infantry	190
	Troop Train	192
	Vaudeville	194
	Carentan O Carentan	195
	Survival: Infantry	197
	First Snow in Alsace	198
	Christmas 1944	200
	Christmas, 1944	204
	In Distrust of Merits	205
	Battle Report	208
	Prodigy	212
	Letter to Simic from Boulder	214
	Buchenwald, Near Weimar	216
	"More Light! More Light!"	218
	Easter Eve 1945	220
	Return	222
	A Box Comes Home	223
	V-J Day	224
	Victory	225
	War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen to It at Your Own Risk	229
	To World War Two	231
	Korean War
	On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul	237
	A Korean Woman Seated by a Wall	239
	Viewing Picasso's Massacre in Korea	241
	The Circle	243
	Memory of a Victory	244
	A Sheaf of Percussion Fire	246
	Re-runs	248
	Trying to Remember People I Never Really Knew	249
	Repository	251
	Korean Litany	253
	Ode for the American Dead in Asia	258
	Vietnam War
	A Short History of the Vietnam War Years	263
	War Profit Litany	265
	Up Rising	266
	Bad Year, Bad War: A New Year's Card, 1969	268
	You Could Make a Song of It, A Dirge of It, A Heartbreaker of It	270
	The Birds of Vietnam	271
	The Asians Dying	273
	Two Villages	274
	Counting Small-Boned Bodies	276
	Vietnam #4	277
	Christmas Bells, Saigon	278
	AK-47	279
	For the Old Man	280
	Search and Destroy	282
	Caves	283
	Communique	284
	Thanks	285
	Song of Napalm	287
	The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible	289
	We	294
	What Were They Like?	296
	News Update	298
	For a Coming Extinction	300
	Places Without Names	301
	At the Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, D. C.	303
	Gulf War
	The Winter of Desert Storm	309
	On a Line from Valery	310
	from Ribbons: The Gulf War	311
	Ode to X	313
	Section Three	314
	Favorite Iraqi Soldier	316
	Old Glory	318
	Operations: Desert Shield, Desert Storm	319
	War on Terrorism
	Loving This Earth	325
	Ground Zero	327
	Complicity	328
	The Names	329
	Speak Out	331
	For the New Year	333
	Call and Answer	334
	Found in the Free Library	335
	Talking Heads	337
	Cyclamen	338
	War	339
	The School Among the Ruins	341
	Transcirularities	345
	Selected Bibliography of Related Titles	347
	Permissions and Acknowledgments	354
	Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines	362