war poetry and war poets from around the world
Book reviews and film reviews about war, war poetry, and the military.
If you liked Michael Casey’s poems about the Viet Nam War in his award-winning Obscenities, as well you should, you’ll also enjoy this second collection. Casey employs the same casual, idiosyncratic style to present anecdotes told in the voice …
In his foreword (whimsically rendered “Deployed Forward”) to this collection of his poems, Alan Farrell ridicules pretension, incomprehensibility, poetry as therapy, literary critical jargon, posturing, the cult of free verse, swingebuckling, and shallow war poetry cliches. You sense that he …