Dismantling Glory presents the most personal and powerful words
ever written about the horrors of battle, by the very soldiers who
put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English
poetry from World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War, Lorrie
Goldensohn, a poet and pacifist, affirms that by and large,
twentieth-century war poetry is fundamentally antiwar. She examines
the changing nature of the war lyric and takes on the literary
thinking of two countries separated by their common language.World
War I poets such as Wilfred Owen emphasized the role of soldier as
victim. By World War II, however, English and American poets,
influenced by the leftist politics of W. H. Auden, tended to indict
the whole of society, not just its leaders, for militarism. During
the Vietnam War, soldier poets accepted themselves as both victims
and perpetrators of war's misdeeds, writing a nontraditional, more
personally candid war poetry.The book not only discusses the poetry
of trench warfare but also shows how the lives of civilians --
women and children in particular -- entered a global war poetry
dominated by air power, invasion, and occupation. Goldensohn argues
that World War II blurred the boundaries between battleground and
home front, thus bringing women and civilians into war discourse as
never before. She discusses the interplay of fascination and
disapproval in the texts of twentieth-century war and notes the way
in which homage to war hero and victim contends with revulsion at
war's horror and waste.In addition to placing the war lyric in
literary and historical context, the book discusses in detail
individual poets such as Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden, Keith Douglas,
Randall Jarrell, and a group of poets from the Vietnam War,
including W. D. Ehrhart, Bruce Weigl, Yusef Komunyakaa, David
Huddle, and Doug Anderson. Dismantling Glory is an original and
compelling look at the way twentieth-century war poetry posited new
relations between masculinity and war, changed and complicated the
representation of war, and expanded the scope of antiwar thinking.
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