America at War
America at War: Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins Lee Bennett Hopkins (Editor), Stephen Alcorn (Illustrator)
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
ISBN: 1416918329
DDC: 811.0080358
Edition: Hardcover; 2008-03-04
Summary:
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and
paintingsdivided into eight sections, one of America's most
distinguished poets and anthologists, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and
internationally acclaimed painter and printmaker Stephen Alcorn trace
emotions of warfare from the American Revolution to the Iraq War.
Warfare has taken -- continues to take -- a tremendous toll on every
man, woman, and child in our society as war weaves itself into the
fabric of our shared past, present, and future. Raw emotions and
results of warfare are expressed here through voices of beloved poets
such as Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Denise
Levertov, and e. e. cummings -- and are movingly combined with voices
of newer poets, including several soldiers who had courage to write
poetry from front lines.America at War exposes effects of war through
hearts of poets and eyes of the artist, paying fitting tribute to
those who have served, those now serving, and those who have given
their lives so we all may live in peace.
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