Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present

David Ward, ed.

ISBN 10: 1588343979 / ISBN 13: 9781588343970

Published by Smithsonian Books October 2013, 2013

About this Item

Minor shelfwear, else tight and clean. Signed by editor, Ward on half-title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books October 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1588343979
• ISBN 13: 9781588343970
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • 15-LIVING ROOM

About this title

Synopsis

Lines in Long Array demonstrates the enduring impact of the Civil War on American culture by presenting poems and photographs from both the past and present, including 12 wholly new poems by contemporary poets created especially for this volume.

Includes previously unpublished poetry by Eavan Boland, Geoffrey Brock, Nikki Giovanni, Jorie Graham, John Koethe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Steve Scafidi, Jr., Michael Schmidt, Dave Smith, Tracy K. Smith, and C. D. Wright. Also includes historic poems by Ethel Lynn Beers, Ambrose Bierce, George H. Boker, Emily Dickinson, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Julia Ward Howe, Herman Melville, Francis Orray Ticknor, Henry Timrod, Walt Whitman, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

About the Author

DAVID C. WARD is a historian at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He is the coauthor of the award-winning Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture and author of Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic. Ward is also a poet whose collection, Internal Difference, was published in 2011. FRANK H. GOODYEAR III is the co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. He was previously curator of photographs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. He is the author of Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits of the American West, 1845-1924, Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer, and Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief.