136:.” Johnson, however, never officially claimed authorship of the material, presenting himself only as “executor” of an archive supposedly composed by a writer, or writers, whose choice was to maintain a principled anonymity in relation to the work. In recent years, the Yasusada discussion has moved from the realm of literary scandal and gossip into considerations of more scholarly kind, and a substantial number of academic articles have engaged the topic, pro and con. In 2011, a book of critical studies,
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graphically informing the prisoners of the tortures to which they will be subjected. The poem, however, concludes unexpectedly when the voice of a generic U. S. poet joins the chorus of torturers, and in good-natured tone tells his captive to stop pleading and just accept the horror of his fate, because there is, after all, nothing that poetry can do to help him.
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and elsewhere, though it does so in a manner quite non-conventional for “anti-war” poetry: The poem proceeds in a series of stanzas set in the voices of
American military prison guards, who calmly chat with Iraqi prisoners and sociably describe their quite normal backgrounds at home, before
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Have You Seen a Red
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A Nation of Poets: Writings from the Poetry Workshops of Nicaragua
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Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry
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Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions to the War.
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Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada
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