By Way of Introduction / Jay Meek, F. D. Reeve 1
Ithakas / John Aleshire 5
Breaking the Truth / Dick Allen 7
The Destruction of the Tower in Khafji / John Allmon 8
Remembering Hiroshima and Propaganda / Jim Barnes 10
Desert Storm Troops Welcomed Back by Republicans / Marvin, Bell 11
The Peaceable Sleepers; Or, Poem to be Read Before, During, and After any of Those 'Truly Nauseating Wars' that Truly 'Make Everybody Sick' / Michael Benedikt 12
For These States, 1991 / Robert Bly 14
Places Without Names / Philip Booth 15
Gulf War Dream / Michael Dennis Browne 17
The War Memorial / Amy Clampitt 18
Fragments / Jane Cooper 19
Global Inequalities / Jayne Cortez 22
The Neighbors / Philip Dacey 24
At Mt Auburn Cemetery / Diana Der-Hovanessian 26
After Desert Storm / Stephen Dunn 27
Mortified Citizen / Clayton Eshleman 28
Nature Poem / David Ferry 30
Seasonal / Roland Flint 31
Poetry after the Recent War / Reginald Gibbons 32
After the Big Parade / Allen Ginsberg 36
America / Diane Glancy 37
Whenever She Speaks Up / Patricia Goedicke 38
Section Three / Albert Goldbarth 40
The Coalition / Donald Hall 42
Yellow Ribbons, Madness, and Victory / Sam Hamill 43
Thanksgiving Prayer / Linda M. Hasselstrom 44
The Truth / William Heyen 46
Gulf: January 17,1991 / Jonathan Holden 47
Watching the War on the Oregon Coast / Bill Holm 49
The Old New War / Edwin Honig 51
The Dance of Daemons / Colette Inez 53
Night Vision of the Gulf War / Dale Jacobson 56
English as a Foreign Language / J. Kates 59
Continuum / Edward Kleinschmidt 61
Watching / Wendy Wilder Larsen 63
Misnomer / Denise Levertov 65
A Rabbit Snared in a Fence of Pain / Philip Levine 66
The People of the Other Village / Thomas Lux 68
Shrapnel / Don Masterson 69
The Small Matters of the Everyday: Two Accounts / Cleopatra Mathis 71
The Intention / Mekeel McBdde 74
Constellations / Jay Meek 76
The Snow / Nelson Moe 78
Selections from Poem-in-Progress (Section 7) / James Moore 79
1990 / Lisel Mueller 81
To the Muse / Corol Muske 82
In Wartime / Kathleen Norris 85
The Protester / Sharon Olds 88
Late at Night, in the Bathroom, the Secretary of State / Walter Pavlich 90
Baubles after Bombs / Molly Peacock 91
The Silence of War / F. D. Reeve 92
In the Alliance / Donald Revel 94
Old Glory / William Stafford 95
Science and Religion / Maura Stanton 96
Ajax's Mother / Terese Svoboda 99
Thinking of the Tao Te Ching After the Persian Gulf War / Thom Tammaro 101
Speech / Henry Taylor 102
Butane / Jean Valentine 105
Prairie Storm / Mark Vinz 106
The Innocents / Ellen Bryant Voigt 107
The Stone / Robert Wallace 108
Matins (2:30 A.M.) / Marilyn Nelson Waniek 109
The Torches / Michael Waters 111
Song Of The Gourd / C. D. Wright 112
Notes on Contributors 115
Acknowledgments 121