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Behind the Lines investigates American war resistance poetry from the Second World War through the Iraq wars. Rather than simply chronicling the genre, Philip Metres argues that this poetry gets to the heart of who is authorized to speak about war and how it can be represented. As such, he explores a largely neglected area of scholarship: the poet's relationship to dissenting political movements and the nation.

War in literature. --- American poetry --- Anti-war poetry, American --- Protest poetry, American --- American literature --- American anti-war poetry --- American protest poetry --- History and criticism.

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American literature --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- War poetry, American --- War stories, American --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.

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Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, both seen as crucial to victory in the Global War on Terror. In her gripping and highly original ethnography, anthropologist Nomi Stone explores US military predeployment training exercises and the lifeworlds of the Iraqi role-players employed within the mock villages, as they act out to mourn, bargain, and die like the wartime adversary or ally. Spanning fieldwork across the United States and Jordan, Pinelandia traces the devastating consequences of a military project that seeks to turn human beings into wartime technologies recruited to translate, mediate, and collaborate. Theorizing and enacting a field poetics, this work enlarges the ethnographic project into new cross-disciplinary worlds. Pinelandia is a political phenomenology of American empire and Iraq in the twenty-first century.--

Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Military training camps --- Soldiers --- War poetry, American --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Writing. --- United States. --- Drill and tactics.

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American literature --- Thematology --- Melville, Herman --- Sources --- United States --- History --- Civil War, 1861-1865 --- Literature and the war --- Knowledge --- War poetry [American ] --- History and criticism --- Poetic works --- Authors [American ] --- 19th century --- Biography

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Ten original essays by advanced scholars and well-published poets address the middle generation of American poets, including the familiar---Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman---and various important contemporaries: Delmore Schwartz, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, and Lorine Niedecker. This was a famously troubled cohort of writers, for reasons both personal and cultural, and collectively their poems give us powerful, moving insights into American social life in the transforming decades of the 1940's through the 1960's.

Culture in literature. --- Community in literature. --- Literary form --- War poetry, American --- Literature and society --- World War, 1939-1945 --- American poetry --- Community in literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Communities in literature.