Poets of World War II Book

	Introduction
	Defeat	1
	from Canto LXXXIII	2
	R.A.F	3
	Pearl Harbor	12
	The Bloody Sire	14
	"Keeping Their World Large"	15
	Three Star Final	17
	from By the Well of Living and Seeing	18
	"When he was small, when he would fall"	20
	Ode to Our Young Pro-consuls of the Air	21
	To a Military Rifle	26
	Moonlight Alert	27
	Night of Battle	28
	The Witness	29
	The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	31
	A Ceremony by the Sea	32
	from Aesthetics After War: Instruments	34
	from A Song for the Year's End	37
	Reflection by a Mailbox	39
	Careless Love	40
	September 1, 1939	41
	Snatch	45
	Patton	46
	Rank	52
	P.O.E.	55
	Survival: Infantry	57
	from Of Being Numerous	58
	Rifle Range: Louisiana	59
	Pacific	60
	Amphibians	60
	Three American Women and a German Bayonet	62
	The Spool	64
	The City of Beggars	68
	The Airman Who Flew Over Shakespeare's England	70
	The Raid	72
	The Blinding of Isaac Woodard	74
	Navigator	77
	Shot Down at Night	78
	Scyros	79
	Troop Train	81
	Full Moon: New Guinea	82
	Lord, I Have Seen Too Much	83
	Homecoming	83
	The Moon and the Night and the Men	85
	Eighth Air Force	87
	The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	88
	Transient Barracks	88
	O My Name It Is Sam Hall	89
	A Camp in the Prussian Forest	90
	June 1940	92
	The City as Hero	93
	At the Grave of My Brother: Bomber Pilot	94
	Explaining the Big One	94
	Some Remarks When Richard Hugo Came	95
	Men	96
	To the Woman in Bond Street Station	97
	Song	98
	Elegy Just in Case	99
	V-J Day	101
	A Box Comes Home	102
	Elegy for a Cove Full of Bones	103
	Homecoming	105
	Remembering That Island	106
	Kilroy	108
	"Vale" from Carthage	110
	Ripeness Is All	111
	from Beach Red	112
	Negro Hero	115
	On the Eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception: 1942	118
	The Bomber	119
	Memories of West Street and Lepke	121
	Soldiers in Death	124
	Memorial	125
	Epithalamium in Olive Drab	126
	Pidgin Pinch	127
	Columbus Circle Swing	128
	A Spring Memorandum: Fort Knox	129
	Navy Field	132
	Love Letter from an Impossible Land	133
	Simile	136
	Flight as a Way of Life	138
	A Fable of the War	139
	A Memory of the War	140
	Night Operations, Coastal Command RAF	141
	The War in the Air	141
	IFF	142
	On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul	144
	Jethro Somes' Apostrophe to His Former Comrades	147
	Mined Country	148
	First Snow in Alsace	149
	Place Pigalle	150
	The Firebombing	152
	Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh Is Over	163
	Portrait from the Infantry	164
	Self-Exhortation on Military Themes	165
	Stentor and Mourning	166
	from Rites and Ceremonies: The Room	168
	"More Light! More Light!"	170
	Still Life	172
	Where We Crashed	174
	Spinizzola: Quella Cantina La	178
	Note from Capri to Richard Ryan on the Adriatic Floor	180
	Arm in Arm	182
	Carentan O Carentan	183
	Memories of a Lost War	185
	Old Soldier	186
	On the Ledge	187
	A Bower of Roses	189
	The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten	193
	World War II	195
	Mothball Fleet: Benicia, California	201
	Battle Report	203
	War Stories	206
	Sniper	209
	To Carelessness	210
	To World War Two	210
	Beachhead	214
	Ten Days Leave	215
	Returned to Frisco, 1946	216
	The Lost Pilot	218
	Biographical Notes	223
	Sources and Acknowledgments	243
	Notes	251
	Index of Titles and First Lines	256