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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2008
Gr 5-8 The veteran anthologist has selected 54 poems and divided them chronologically into eight sections representing major American conflicts. Each section is prefaced with an abbreviated description of the war. The poems do not always reference a specific conflict, but were chosen to convey its "emotional impact." Thus, Sir Walter Scott's lines from "Lady of the Lake" address an exhausted Revolutionary soldier, and Langston Hughes's "Dreams" concludes the Iraq War section. Contemporary (and near-contemporary) poets, from J. Patrick Lewis to Jane Yolen to Denise Levertov, are well represented, as a majority ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
This collection features fifty-four classic and contemporary poems about different American-fought wars, focusing on the emotional impa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More