Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&N=3+8015+4294967200+4294799286 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692037 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=670335 American War Poetry spans the history of the nation. Beginning with the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and ending with the Gulf Wars, this original and significant anthology presents four centuries of American men and women - soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians - writing about war. American War Poetry opens with a ballad by a freed African American slave, commenting on a skirmish with Indians in a Massachusetts meadow. Poems on the American Revolution follow, as well as poems on minor conflicts like the Mexican War and the Spanish-American Wars. This compact anthology has generous selections on the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnamese-American War, but it also includes an unusually large offering on American participation in the Spanish Civil War. Another section covers four hundred years of conflict with Native Americans, ending with poems by contemporary Indians who respond passionately and directly to their difficult history. The collection also reaches into current reaction to American involvement in Latin America, Bosnia, and the Gulf Wars. Showing the depth of feeling and the range of thinking with which Americans have confronted war, American War Poetry expands our sense of what poetry is made to do. While the birth of a national identity is documented in early poems, the anthology also conveys the growing sophistication of a uniquely American style. Although early war poems show that the first justification for war was purely defensive, as American global ambitions matured, American writers moved increasingly to deplore a homegrown imperialism and its terrible costs. While many familiar poems of patriotic ardor have been chosen, other poems show a steady interest in antiwar themes. Lorrie Goldensohn provides a brief biography for each poet and places each poem in its proper literary and historical context. Comprehensive and compelling, American War Poetry not only documents the birth and development of a national style of expression but shows the force of poetry working on the historical moment, making it come vitally alive.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583330 This collection brings together the most memorable and enduring work inspired by the American Civil War: the masterpieces of Whitman and Melville, Sidney Lanier on the death of Stonewall Jackson, the anti-slavery poems of Longfellow and Whittier, the frontline narratives of Henry Howard Brownell and John W. De Forest, the anthems of Julia Ward Howe and James Ryder Randall. Grief, indignation, pride, courage, patriotic fervor, ultimately reconciliation and healing: the poetry of the Civil War evokes unforgettably the emotions that roiled America in its darkest hour.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=534102 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=92839 From the time of the conflict to the present day, the Civil War has been engraved in the collective memory of Americans, inspiring a legion of poetic sentiments from Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as from Americas finest men and women poets both black and white. Nineteenth-century poets such as Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote notable works on a subject all too close to their hearts and minds; but so too have such formidable recent writers as John Updike and Derek Walcott. Yet this rich tradition of Civil War poetry - spanning more than a century and a half - has never before been chronicled in one comprehensive volume. Collected here are the horrors of the war, the common nobility of the soldiers taking part, the moral fervor of abolition, the eerie stillness of the field after battle, and Lincolns legacy - all recorded in verse and dramatically illustrated by photographs from the Matthew Brady Collection of the National Archives. Artfully assembled by Richard Marius, noted novelist and historian, The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry includes the classics of the genre as well as rare period pieces by African Americans and women, and northern and southern patriotic verse and songs. Marius paints the background of the conflict and its literature in his lively introduction, and prefaces each poem with a compelling vignette. What emerges from these pages is a deep sense of the anger of the wars participants, their yearning for peace, and overall an unparalleled pageant of the war in all its power and sentimentality. The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry is a unique anthology that collectors, gift-givers, and general readers fascinated by American lore will all appreciate. It is an eloquent, original commemoration of the American Civil War, captured in meter and light.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=143382