American War Poetry: An Anthology

Edited by Lorrie Goldensohn

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March, 2006
Cloth, 448 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13310-4
$35.00 / £24.00

"These fascinating poems... put into sharp relief America's complex, conflicted, and evolving attitudes toward war." — Ploughshares

"A sterling collection of verse from the colonial wars to today." — VVA Veteran

"Original and significant." — readysteadybook.com

"[American War Poetry] offers the works of nearly 200 of America's greatest poets." — Library Journal

"This unique, remarkable anthology of war poetry embraces every major conflict of the US... Essential." — Choice

"American War Poetry is an essential anthology for these times, as well as one that will hold up well long after." — Kathleen Rooney, Harvard Review

"American War Poetry: An Anthology is an original and unprecedented event, assembling the poetry of war from the birth of the republic to the present imperial quest, and in reading this formidable symphony of utterance one cannot but admire the vision, critical acumen and scholarly rigor that brought so necessary a book into being. Lorrie Goldhensohn has given us an immense gift." — Carolyn Forché , author of Blue Hour: Poems

Related Subjects

• American Literature
• Literary Studies
• Poetry

About the Author

Lorrie Goldensohn is most recently the author of Dismantling Glory: Twentieth-Century Soldier Poetry, which was nominated for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry received a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. Her poetry and critical essays have appeared in journals and periodicals since 1965.

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