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Poems in the Film

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Chris Abani
Stabat Mater (text)
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Break A Leg (text)
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Marilyn Nelson
Unrhymed Peace Sonnet (text)
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Sinan Antoon
Wrinkles; on the Wind's Forehead (text)
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Wars I (text)
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Wilfred Owen
The Last Laugh (text)
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Fragment: A Farewell (text)
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W.H. Auden
Epitaph On A Tyrant (text)
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Sherman Pearl
The Poem in Time of War (text)
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Rachel Bentham
News from Iraq (text)
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War--the concise version (text)
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Peter Levitt
Untitled (text)
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Sampurna Chattarji
Easy (text)
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Alexandra Indira Sanyal
Untitled (text)
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David Connolly
Food for Thought, 3AM (text)
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Why I Can't (text)
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Wearing Faces (text)
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Siegfried Sassoon
Does it Matter? (text)
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Emily Dickinson
Poem #639 (text)
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Alan Seeger
I Have a Rendezvous with Death (text)
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Ali Habash
Rockets Destroying a Happy Family (text)
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Hashim Shafiq
The Killer of Iraq (Saddam Hussein) (text)
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Pamela Talene Hale
Poem for an Iraqi Child in a Forgotten News Clip (text)
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Shoda Shinoe
Tanka (I) (text)
Tanka (II) (text)
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Sam Hamill
Sheepherder Coffee (text)
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Enheduanna, Sumerian Priestess
Lament to the Spirit of War (text)
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Seamus Heaney
from "The Cure at Troy," based on Sophocles (text)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade (text)
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Homer
Opening Lines of The Iliad (text)
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Antonieta Villamil
Letter to the brother that went to war (text)
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Langston Hughes
Expendable (text)
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Emily Warn
California Poppy (text)
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Walt Whitman
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night (text)
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The Wound-Dresser (text)
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Randall Jarrell
Losses (text)
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Todd Swift
Promise (text)
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Cameron Penny
If You Are Lucky in This Life (text)
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About the film

Voices in Wartime uses the words of Wilfred Owen, considered by many to be the greatest poet of World War I, as a guide: “Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity… All a poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.”


 
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