Exploring Anglo-American war poetry from World War I to the Vietnam War, Goldensohn (poetry, Vassar College) discusses the tensions between elegy and anti-elegy as expressed in the works of Wilfred Owen, W.H. Auden, Keith Douglas, Randall Jerry, and a host of Vietnam War poets. Originally drawn to the works of the soldier-poet, she found it impossible to ignore the blurring of "fronts" exhibited by the poetry of World War II and influenced by Auden. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)