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Article: Poets Against the War.(Book Review)
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- Military Review
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- March 1, 2005
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POETS AGAINST THE WAR, Sam Hamill and Sally Anderson, eds., Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, New York, 2003, 263 pages, $12.95.
You might not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.--Leon Trotsky
After enjoying Sam Hamill's excellent introduction to this volume of protest poetry, my impression was that many contributors wrote simply out of an urgent need to say something--anything. What emerges reads like rough drafts rather than final cuts, which is disappointing considering the outstanding lineup of poets Hamill assembled.
Often poetry arising from national or international exigencies is written too quickly. Antiwar movements ...
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Article: THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO SAM HAMILL.(poem)
Poetry;
January 1, 1999 ;
638 words
...You may think it strange, Sam, that I'm writing a letter in these circumstances. I thought it strange too--the first time. But there's a misconception I was laboring under, and you are too, viz. that the imagination in your vicinity is free and powerful. After all, you say, you've been creating
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