The Stick Soldiers sets the precedent for all future accounts of war in poetic form. Groundbreaking in its honesty, necessary ugliness, and compellingly executed intertwining of imagery, emotion, and story, this is a stunning first book.
Source: Tunneling Forward: Remembering the Iraq War through the Poetry of Hugh Martin
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“When I was 7, she cradled bullets in the billows of her robes,” writes Emtithal Mahmoud in the poem Mama, with which she won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship in Washington DC. “That same night, she taught me how to get gunpowder out of cotton with a bar of soap.”
Source: Darfur poet triumphs in international poetry slam | Books | The Guardian
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“Opera asks us to consider the responsibility all Americans bear for Abu Ghraib and to think what we might have done if we were in his place…These poems are a dialogue between Standard Operation Procedure for Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, the soldiers who served in Abu Ghraib, and the Abu Ghraib prisoners..”
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Source: The Words After War Interview with Victoria Kelly by Matt Gallagher
Victoria Kelly’s poetry collection When the Men Go Off to War received widespread critical acclaim since being published in September 2015 by the Naval Institute Press. The Military Times hailed it for “her themes of departure, absence and homecoming [which] are universal in place,” and esteemed poet Dick Allen called it “Meticulously crafted [and] highly readable … one of the finest first collections I’ve read in the last decade.”
New York Times review of ‘The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai,’ Edited by Robert Alter
Yehuda Amichai was born in Würzburg, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish family, and was raised speaking both Hebrew and German,his German name was Ludwig Pfeuffer.[3]
Amichai immigrated with his family at the age of 11 to Petah Tikva in Mandate Palestine in 1935, moving to Jerusalem in 1936.[4] He attended Ma’aleh, a religious high school in Jerusalem. He was a member of the Palmach, the strike force of the Haganah, the defense force of the Jewish community in Mandate Palestine. As a young man he volunteered and fought in World War II as a member of the British Army, and in the Negev on the southern front in the Israeli War of Independence.
He’ll begin his study and translation with the written works of three Ivory Coast poets: Azo Vauguy, Josué Guébo and Tanella Boni. Each tackles the country’s civil unrest, but their styles are different. I want to shatter the silence that structures trauma and pain, even if just in the most personal sense. Todd Fredson By translating their work into English, Fredson aims to amplify their voices, as well as the experiences of the nation’s people. It’s a legacy he wants to leave for the writers and the war-
Source: The aftermath of war in Africa — through the eyes of a poet | USC News
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David Jones was an epic poet and his recollection of his war experiences, an epic poem entitled In Parenthesis, was first published by Faber and Faber in 1937, with a foreword by T.S. Eliot (then a partner in that publishing house) who called it “a work of genius.”In Parenthesis defies classification. A “proem” or a piece of epic “proesy”, In Parenthesis can read for pages (and pages) like some kind of disjointed post-Modern novel. It goes almost whole sections without traditional poetical line-breaks. It was heavily influenced by James Joyce—especially Ulysses,
Source: David Jones: The Greatest War Poet From the Greatest War |Blogs | NCRegister.com
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A rediscovered Shelley poem highlights how little has changed in warfare over the last 200 years.
Source: Shelley’s 200-Year-Old Anti-War Poem Resurfaces in Time for Veterans Day – The Atlantic
Gouri is considered the greatest Israeli poet of the generation from the 1948 War of Independence. He has published 12 books of poetry
Source: Poet and Palmach Icon Haim Gouri Turns Down ‘Zionist Works of Art’ Prize – Life – Haaretz
