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

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...