Short unrhymed poems from the author of The Red Badge of Courage. The title poem consoles a maiden, a babe and a mother whose men have died in the yellow trenches, each time with the savage refrain that war is kind; others turn to lost love, a dying hunter in the woods and the silence of God.
A small, startling book that points ahead to modern American poetry, first printed with Will Bradley’s drawings. Download the free EPUB.