Volume 50, Number 19 · December 4, 2003
Young Old Soldiers
By Brad Leithauser
Poets of World War II
edited by Harvey Shapiro
American Poets Project/Library of America, 262 pp., $20.00
Smoke yields to further smoke. As the skies clear over Iraq, the smoldering images are gradually absorbed into memory's archives, where other, earlier, likewise indelible images of combat are stored; the nation's latest war brings closer its every previous war.
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