Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Great Regulars: This, you could say,

is the "bottomless mud" that [Siegfried] Sassoon defines, endless war brought on by pompous and incompetent leaders, for whom poetry does well to give one particular sort of salute: satiric condemnation.

Memorial Tablet

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Satirical poets skewer foibles of war

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