Those poems are pretty weak. Compare to Vietnam war poetry, for example, here:
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Poetry/Connolly_poems_4&3.html#Our%20Fourth%20LT
Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I think the responses are as interesting as the post by Turner, Gerald.
They demonstrate that the kind of traditional modern poetry he writes,
when coming form an experience most of us can't & won't have, can speak
to many readers. I of course did think about those WW1 poets whose work
seems, still, to me to dig deeper, but he is making that gesture, & was
there, to write from that feral knowledge, & so his poems can reach
those who are already thinking thoughts against the grain of power in
the US (& its lies: I think what I miss from his view is any sense that
he was serving those lies).
Doug
On 9-Oct-07, at 5:35 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> A grain of salt, a grain of sand...
>
> http://homefires.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/verses-in-wartime-part
> -1-in-country/index.html?ref=opinion
>
> Gerald S.
>
>
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