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Unread 08-20-2009, 10:58 AM
T.S. Kerrigan T.S. Kerrigan is offline
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Gregory,

You make an excellent point about his being a veteran of WWII and the incise poetry he wrote about it. I was being too parochial, thinking of poems I read or recited to my children. I would have been puzzling for them to have heard

I dream of war heroes, of wounded war heroes
With just enough of their charms shot away
To make them more handsome...

From "War Heroes," from his book The Fighting in Europe. He published several wonderful collections before he felll under the spell of Uncle Walt, including Songs and Lyrics, A Discovery of America, A Dream of Governors, etc. Some poems from these earlier books are collected in People Live Here (BOA 1983).

I published some of his poetry when I edited Hierophant in 1969-1970.

I think these formal poems are some of the best of the genre and are worthy of close studies
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