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Dismantling Glory

Lorrie Goldensohn

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Paper, 336 pages, 12 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-11939-9
$27.00 / £18.50

December, 2003
Cloth, 336 pages, 12 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-11938-2
$80.00 / £55.00

The Dignities of Danger

The Troubled Stream

"Half in love with the horrors which we cried out against''

The Boundaries of War

The Burdens of Heroic Masculinity

Far with the Brave We Have Ridden

Dismantling Glory

Wilfred Owen's "Long-famous glories, immemorial shames''

Introduction: The Fellowship of Death

"One must see and feel''

"The pity of War''

W. H. Auden: "The great struggle of our time''

England's Auden

Where the War Poets Were

Keith Douglas: Inside the Whale

"Simplify me when I'm dead''

"The glorious bran tub''

"Bte Noire''

Randall Jarrell's War

The Particulars of the Poem

"He learns to fight for freedom and the State''

A Poetic and Semifeminine Mind

"Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can''

"A fresh visionary tension''

American Poets of the Vietnam War

"Cry for us all, for learning our lessons well''

"Winning Hearts and Minds"

"Carrying the Darkness"

"Beautiful Wreckage"

"Brothers in the Nam''

Men and Women and Women

Raids on Homer

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About the Author

Lorrie Goldensohn is the editor of American War Poetry and the author of Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry, which 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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