List of Illustrations Preface: A Preliminary Acknowledgments 1. The Dignities of Danger 2. Wilfred Owen's "Long-famous glories, immemorial shames" 3. W. H. Auden: "The great struggle of our time" 4. Keith Douglas: Inside the Whale 5. Randall Jarrell's War 6. American Poets of the Vietnam War Notes Works Cited Index Further Acknowledgments
Dismantling Glory deals with the poetry written about the honors and horrors of battle by the very soldiers who put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English poetry from World Wars I and II and the Vietnam War, Lorrie Goldensohn presents the move from a poetry largely bound to trench warfare to a global war poetry dominated by air power, invasion, and occupation. Civilians, prisoners, and children enter this poetry in new and compelling ways, as do issues of race and gender, changing and complicating the representation of war, and expanding the scope of antiwar thinking.
Lorrie Goldensohn is the editor of American War Poetry and the author of Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry, which received a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. Her poetry and critical essays have appeared in journals and periodicals since 1965.
Lorrie Goldensohn is a superb writer with an exemplary presence of mind. Her attention to the "largeness of literary being" she finds in the poetry of war is balanced by an extraordinary moral and historical wakefulness. Rigorous, open to surprise and terror, she engages us in the struggle to see clearly the illogic of war and, as she says, "to keep imaginative faith with the species" that wages war and finds ingenious ways to justify itself. Dismantling Glory is a brilliant mosaic, at once learned, dramatic, urgent, mournful and exhilarating. -- Robert Boyers Skidmore College For anyone unacquainted with the history of war poetry in Britain and America during the twentieth century, Goldensohn's book is a good introduction. The Nation
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