As such, he explores a largely neglected area of scholarship: the poet’s relationship to dissenting political movements and the nation. Rather than simply chronicling the genre, Philip Metres argues that this poetry gets to the heart of who is authorized to speak about war and how it can be represented. Behind the Lines investigates American war resistance poetry from the Second World War through the Iraq wars. The hasty cancellation of the 2003 White House symposium “Poetry and the American Voice” in the face of protests by Sam Hamill and other invited guests against the coming “shock and awe” campaign in Iraq reminded us that poetry and poets still have the power to challenge the powerful. Whether Thersites in Homer’s Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen Ginsberg in “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” poets have long given solitary voice against the brutality of war. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server.
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