Lorrie Goldensohn is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry (1992), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Dismantling Glory: Twentieth-Century Soldier Poetry (2003), nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
American War Poetry is an essential anthology for these times, as well as one that will hold up well long after. -- Kathleen Rooney * Harvard Review * This unique, remarkable anthology of war poetry embraces every major conflict of the US... Essential. * Choice * [American War Poetry] offers the works of nearly 200 of America's greatest poets. * Library Journal * Original and significant. * readysteadybook.com * A sterling collection of verse from the colonial wars to today. * VVA Veteran * These fascinating poems... put into sharp relief America's complex, conflicted, and evolving attitudes toward war. * Ploughshares *