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Contents preface ix acknowledgments xi introduction 1 part 1 World War II: The Poetics of Conscientious Objection 25 1. Robert Lowell’s Refusals: Memories of War Resistance in Prison 27 2. William Stafford’s Lost Landmarks: The Poetics of Pacifism and the Limits of Lyric 51 3. William Everson and the Fine Arts Camp: From Utopian Hopes to a Chronicle of Division 73 part 2 Vietnam: The War on the Homefront 93 4. Bringing It All Back Home: From Anthology to Action 95 5. Denise Levertov’s Distant Witness: The Politics of Identification 127 part 3 The Persian Gulf War: Protest and the Postmodern 153 6. The Gump War: Lyric Resistance Poetry in Crisis 155 7. June Jordan’s Righteous Certainty: Poetic Address in Resistance Poetry 179 8. Barrett Watten’s Bad History: A Counter-Epic of the Gulf War 197 coda Proliferations: Sites of Resistance since September 11, 2001 219 notes 237 works cited 255 index 273 ...

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