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----- Original Message ----- From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 7:00 AM Subject: Re: Lynndie England to her Baby Son > Given that we seem to be pretty well agreed on the importance of at least > attempting this sort of thing, I'd been thinking that I'd maybe ask what > published poems people know in this vein. > > So thanks for that pointer, Rich. Any more ideas, anyone? > > joanna > Very eminently, Frank Bidart, especially his earlier work. See his early Collected, In the Western Night; the poem "Herbert White." W. D. Snodgrass's book "The Fuhrer Bunker." Though his purpose is more obviously moral, and the distance greater between the poet and his speakers (Hitler, Goebbels, the whole gang), these are marvelous and instructive poems.