Lines in Long Array
A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2013
128 pages
978-1-58834-457-1 (ISBN)
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Lines in Long Array demonstrates the enduring impact of the Civil War on American culture by presenting poems and photographs from both the past and present, including 12 wholly new poems by contemporary poets created especially for this volume.
Includes previously unpublished poetry by Eavan Boland, Geoffrey Brock, Nikki Giovanni, Jorie Graham, John Koethe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Steve Scafidi, Jr., Michael Schmidt, Dave Smith, Tracy K. Smith, and C. D. Wright. Also includes historic poems by Ethel Lynn Beers, Ambrose Bierce, George H. Boker, Emily Dickinson, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Julia Ward Howe, Herman Melville, Francis Orray Ticknor, Henry Timrod, Walt Whitman, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Includes previously unpublished poetry by Eavan Boland, Geoffrey Brock, Nikki Giovanni, Jorie Graham, John Koethe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Steve Scafidi, Jr., Michael Schmidt, Dave Smith, Tracy K. Smith, and C. D. Wright. Also includes historic poems by Ethel Lynn Beers, Ambrose Bierce, George H. Boker, Emily Dickinson, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Julia Ward Howe, Herman Melville, Francis Orray Ticknor, Henry Timrod, Walt Whitman, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
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DAVID C. WARD is a historian at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He is the coauthor of the award-winning Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture and author of Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic. Ward is also a poet whose collection, Internal Difference, was published in 2011. FRANK H. GOODYEAR III is the co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. He was previously curator of photographs at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He is the author of Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits of the American West, 1845-1924, Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer, and Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- "The Real War .": Poetry and the Civil War / David C. Ward
- Shattered Ground: Photography and the Civil War / Frank H. Goodyear III
- Poems, 2012-13
- Tulsa / John Koethe
- Staring Back at Us: A Gallery / Geoffrey Brock
- I Am Silas / Yusef Komunyakaa
- The Education of Henry Adams, Private Secretary / Michael Schmidt
- Message from the Fourth Tour / Jorie Graham
- A Soldier in the 28th Massachusetts / Eavan Boland
- The Missionary Ridge Reenactment Ball / Dave Smith
- Obscurity and Legacy / C. D. Wright
- A Civil War Suite / Paul Muldoon
- Portrait of Abraham Lincoln with Clouds for a Ceiling / Steve Scafidi Jr.
- I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It / Tracy K. Smith
- The Lost Cause . Lost / Nikki Giovanni
- Photographs by Sally Mann
- Poems, 1854-1903
- The Slave Auction / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, 1862 / John Greenleaf Whittier
- Army Hymn ("Old Hundred") / Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford / Walt Whitman
- Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862) / Herman Melville
- Ode: Graves of the Confederate Dead / Henry Timrod
- My Triumph lasted till the Drums / Emily Dickinson
- Our Orders / Julia Ward Howe
- Dirge for a Soldier / George H. Boker
- All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight (The Picket Guard) / Ethel Lynn Beers
- The Virginians of the Valley / Francis Orray Ticknor
- A Year's Casualties / Ambrose Bierce
- Photographs by Alexander Gardner
- Biographies
- Acknowledgments
- Index of Poets and Artists
- Copyright
