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Tables of Contents for Poets of World War II
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xix
Witter Bynner (1881--1968)
Defeat
1
1
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)
from Canto LXXXIII
2
1
H. D. (1886--1961)
R.A.F.
3
9
Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)
Pearl Harbor
12
2
The Bloody Sire
14
1
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)
``Keeping Their World Large''
15
2
Conrad Aiken (1889--1973)
Three Star Final
17
1
Charles Reznikoff (1894--1976)
from By the Well of Living and Seeing
18
2
Vladimir Nabokov (1899--1977)
``When he was small, when he would fall''
20
1
Allen Tate (1899--1979)
Ode to Our Young Pro-consuls of the Air
21
5
Yvor Winters (1900--1968)
To a Military Rifle
26
1
Moonlight Alert
27
1
Night of Battle
28
1
Eve Triem (1902--1992)
The Witness
29
2
Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
31
1
A Ceremony by the Sea
32
2
from Aesthetics After War: Instruments
34
3
Louis Zukofsky (1904--1978)
from A Song for the Year's End
37
2
Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)
Reflection by a Mailbox
39
1
Careless Love
40
1
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)
September 1, 1939
41
4
Lincoln Kirstein (1907--1996)
Snatch
45
1
Patton
46
6
Rank
52
3
P.O.E.
55
2
George Oppen (1908--1984)
Survival: Infantry
57
1
from Of Being Numerous
58
1
Charles E. Butler (1909--1981)
Rifle Range: Louisiana
59
1
Robert Fitzgerald (1910--1985)
Pacific
60
1
Amphibians
60
2
Winfield Townley Scott (1910--1968)
Three American Women and a German Bayonet
62
2
Ben Belitt (b. 1911)
The Spool
64
4
Alfred Hayes (1911--1985)
The City of Beggars
68
2
Hyam Plutzik (1911--1962)
The Airman Who Flew Over Shakespeare's England
70
2
William Everson (1912--1994)
The Raid
72
2
Woody Guthrie (1912--1967)
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
74
3
May Sarton (1912--1995)
Navigator
77
1
John Frederick Nims (1913--1999)
Shot Down at Night
78
1
Karl Shapiro (1913--2000)
Scyros
79
2
Troop Train
81
1
Full Moon: New Guinea
82
1
Lord, I Have Seen Too Much
83
1
Homecoming
83
2
John Berryman (1914--1972)
The Moon and the Night and the Men
85
2
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)
Eighth Air Force
87
1
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
88
1
Transient Barracks
88
1
O My Name It Is Sam Hall
89
1
A Camp in the Prussian Forest
90
2
Weldon Kees (1914--1955)
June 1940
92
1
The City as Hero
93
1
William Stafford (1914--1997)
At the Grave of My Brother: Bomber Pilot
94
1
Explaining the Big One
94
1
Some Remarks When Richard Hugo Came
95
1
Men
96
1
Edward R. Weismiller (b. 1915)
To the Woman in Bond Street Station
97
1
John Ciardi (1916--1986)
Song
98
1
Elegy Just in Case
99
2
V-J Day
101
1
A Box Comes Home
102
1
Elegy for a Cove Full of Bones
103
2
Thomas McGrath (1916--1990)
Homecoming
105
1
Remembering That Island
106
2
Peter Viereck (b. 1916)
Kilroy
108
2
``Vale'' from Carthage
110
1
Ripeness Is All
111
1
Peter Bowman (1917--1985)
from Beach Red
112
3
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000)
Negro Hero
115
3
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)
On the Eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception: 1942
118
1
The Bomber
119
2
Memories of West Street and Lepke
121
3
William Bronk (1918--1999)
Soldiers in Death
124
1
Memorial
125
1
William Jay Smith (b. 1918)
Epithalamium in Olive Drab
126
1
Pidgin Pinch
127
1
Columbus Circle Swing
128
1
Robert Duncan (1919--1988)
A Spring Memorandum: Fort Knox
129
3
William Meredith (b. 1919)
Navy Field
132
1
Love Letter from an Impossible Land
133
3
Simile
136
2
Ann Darr (b. 1920)
Flight as a Way of Life
138
1
Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)
A Fable of the War
139
1
A Memory of the War
140
1
Night Operations, Coastal Command RAF
141
1
The War in the Air
141
1
IFF
142
2
Hayden Carruth (b. 1921)
On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul
144
3
John Pauker (1921--1991)
Jethro Somes' Apostrophe to His Former Comrades
147
1
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
Mined Country
148
1
First Snow in Alsace
149
1
Place Pigalle
150
2
James Dickey (1923--1997)
The Firebombing
152
11
Alan Dugan (b. 1923)
Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh Is Over
163
1
Portrait from the Infantry
164
1
Self-Exhortation on Military Themes
165
1
Stentor and Mourning
166
2
Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)
from Rites and Ceremonies: The Room
168
2
``More Light! More Light!''
170
2
Still Life
172
2
Richard Hugo (1923--1982)
Where We Crashed
174
4
Spinizzola: Quella Cantina La
178
2
Note from Capri to Richard Ryan on the Adriatic Floor
180
2
Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
Arm in Arm
182
1
Carentan O Carentan
183
2
Memories of a Lost War
185
1
Old Soldier
186
1
On the Ledge
187
2
A Bower of Roses
189
4
Edgar Bowers (1924--2000)
The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten
193
2
Edward Field (b. 1924)
World War II
195
6
John Haines (b. 1924)
Mothball Fleet: Benicia, California
201
2
Harvey Shapiro (b. 1924)
Battle Report
203
3
War Stories
206
3
Lucien Stryk (b. 1924)
Sniper
209
1
Kenneth Koch (1925--2002)
To Carelessness
210
1
To World War Two
210
4
Samuel Menashe (b. 1925)
Beachhead
214
1
W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)
Ten Days Leave
215
1
Returned to Frisco, 1946
216
2
James Tate (b. 1943)
The Lost Pilot
218
5
Biographical Notes
223
20
Sources and Acknowledgments
243
8
Notes
251
5
Index of Titles and First Lines
256