Original poem reprinted online here: "A Song" by Ghassan Zaqtan Originally read: February 18, 2013 More information about the Poet: Ghassan Zaqtan So I keep thinking in my head war poems are really hard to do. I once was asked, "do you know any Vietnam War Poems." No, not really. Yes there's been poems about World War I and II. But nothing too recent, and I wonder why. It's not like poets have stopped writing about wars -- all topics are on the table. Yet this poem doesn't address the casualties of war. What this poem does is take away that emotional sentimentality line that (the emotional suffering of war) -- yes, I think by now that most people will agree that emotionally speaking -- war is bad, and instead shows the aftermath of war in a non-Hollywood fashion. Note -- I'm referring to the concept of war being written in poetry rather than the individual stories like "The Death of the Turret Ball Gunner" by Randell Jarell where th...
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