Synopsis
War-poems from the front lines and the home front, voiced with intimate clarity and stark honesty. This collection turns the heat of battle into piercing, personal verse, inviting readers to feel the weight of duty, memory, and loss without turning away.
The poems blend vivid battlefield scenes with quiet, reflective moments, tracing a soldier’s courage, fear, and enduring hope. They move between trenches, hospitals, and family rooms, capturing how war shapes both nations and the people who bear it.
- Raw battle imagery and light-filled memories that illuminate each scene.
- Direct, spare language that conveys endurance, grief, and resilience.
- Personal letters, friendships, and the pull between duty and home.
- Thoughtful meditations on loyalty, justice, and the cost of conflict.
Ideal for readers of war poetry, historical memory, and personal testimony who want a firsthand, unflinching look at wartime experience.
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Professor Albert S. Cook for permission to reprint twelve of the war poems, which, as a group, received in 1918 the annual award of the prize in poetry offered by him to Yale University. Thanks are also due the editors of the following periodicals for their kind permission to reprint other poems: the Nation, Contemporary Verse, the Poetry Journal, Poetry: AM agazine of Verse, the Masses, and the Yale Literary Magazine.
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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR?d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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