Poets of World War II / Harvey Shapiro, editor.

Defeat / Witter Bynner
from Canto LXXXIII / Ezra Pound
R.A.F. / H.D.
Pearl Harbor / Robinson Jeffers
"Keeping their world large" / Marianne Moore
Three star final / Conrad Aiken
from By the well of living and seeing / Charles Reznikoff
"When he was small, when he would fall" / Vladimir Nabokov
Ode to our young pro-consuls of the air / Allen Tate
To a military rifle / Yvor Winter)
Witness / Eve Triem
Fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart
from A song for the year's end / Louis Zukovsky
Careless love / Stanley Kunitz
September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden
Snatch / Lincoln Kirstein
Survival, Infantry / George Oppen
Rifle range, Louisiana / Charles E. Butler
Pacific / Robert Fitzgerald
Three American women and a German bayonet / Winfield Townley Scott
Spool / Ben Belitt
Cith of beggars / Alfred Hayes
Airman who flew over Shakespeare's England / Hyam Plutzik
Raid / William Everson
Blinding of Isaac Woodard / Woody Guthrie
Navigator / May Sarton
Shot down at night / John Frederick Nims
Scyros / Karl Shapiro
Moon and the night and the men / John Berryman
Jethro Somes' apostrophe to his former comrades / John Pauker
Mined country / Richard Wilbur
Firebombing / James Dickey
Stentor and mourning / Alan Dugan
Still life / Anthony Hecht
Where we crashed / Richard Hugo
Arm in arm / Louis Simpson
Stoic, for Laura Von Courten / Edgar Bowers
World War II / Edward Field
Mothball fleet, Benicia, California / John Haines
War stories / Harvey Shapiro
Sniper / Lucien Stryk
To carelessness / Kenneth Koch
Beachhead / Samuel Menashe
Ten days leave / W.D. Snodgrass
Lost pilot / James Tate.