[New-Poetry] Re: Where are the war poets?

[Richard Wilsnack]

Sam Gwynn wrote,

"If a poet wants to get across the reality of a contemporary war (as 
Turner does) there is the huge stumbling block of instantaneous media 
coverage.  Still, this doesn't explain the absence of Korean War poetry, 
which certainly provided enough amazing imagery (those shit-fertilized 
rice fields) to inspire my junior high school teachers (who were of that 
generation) but not the poets."

There is an anthology titled _Retrieving Bones: Stories and Poems of the 
Korean War_, edited by W. D. Erhart & Philip K. Jason (Rutgers 
University Press, 1999), which includes poems by William Childress, 
Rolando Hinojosa, James Magner Jr., Reg Saner, William Wantling, and 
Keith Wilson. I don't have access to a copy, so I don't know about how 
directly the poems relate to the war, but it might be worth the effort 
to track down a copy of the book.

Richard W. Wilsnack
rwilsnac at medicine.nodak.edu
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