[New-Poetry] Where are the war poets?

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 11/5/2007 4:47:53 PM Central Standard Time, 
jforjames at aol.com writes: 
> A couple of months ago, a friend asked me why there was no poetry dealing 
> with our current war. I suppose he was thinking that the conflict in the Gulf 
> has dominated the political headlines for several years now and was wondering 
> why the poetic community hadn’t responded. Behind his question lurked the 
> suggestion that latterday poetry is both effete and ineffectual, unable or 
> unwilling to deal with the big subjects, being all style and little substance and 
> having nothing to say to the everyday reader, and no way of saying it. Where 
> is the war poetry, he wanted to know, and who are the war poets? 
> 
> 
> 
Brian Turner won this year's Poets' Prize for Here, Bullet, a fine book of 
war poetry written by a soldier-poet.  There is also an interesting article in 
the current New York Times Book Review about the English curriculum at West 
Pointl.   
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