In Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Home Front Since 1941 (University of Iowa Press, 2007), Philip Metres examines the work of Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, Karl Shapiro, and others who protest the brutalities of war through verse. The book also provides ideas for how poets can involve themselves in social action off the page.
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