A collection of more than two dozen poems written by Carl Sandburg, Lucille Clifton, Eve Merriam, and others which explores aspects of war and peace. An anthology of war poems that are strikingly illustrated with photos reflecting the power and emotion of the poems.

"American War Poetry spans the history of the nation. Beginning with the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and ending with the Gulf Wars, this original and significant anthology presents four centuries of American men and women-soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians-writing about war"--Amazon.com.

A collection of poems about America at war from the Revolution to the Iraq war.