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

[Alexander Jorgensen]

An apology if my most recent post seemed to come out of left field, as they say - and I tend to do this while stumbling to communicate. I remember a poem sent to me during the beginning of the current Iraq war, a kind of Dr. Seuss-type thing, written by a noted poet who preferred to remain anonymous. Anyway, I was perplexed by his decision to remain so, feeling at the time that this approach lessened the influence such a sharing of ideas might have, and at such a critical time. With regards to war poems, I wonder, and please correct me for sounding ignorant, if that is how I might sound, but is part of the problem, as least Stateside, that not nearly enough poets are traveling and living abroad, exposed to new perspectives, approached by realities starkly different to what is relative comfort on the home front, very far removed from arms and limbs. I don't know.

Hope those 'war poems' (or 'conflict poems') might have brought something to this thoughtful list.


Best,
Alex


--
Tennessee Williams: "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
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