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James Tatum

The Mourner's Song

War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam

235 pages, 31 halftones  6 x 9  © 2003

Cloth $40.00

ISBN: 9780226789934   Published March 2003

Paper $18.00

ISBN: 9780226789941   Published May 2004

Related links: Read excerpts on memorials in Vietnam, the battlefields of Troy and Battery Wagner, and the chapter The Poetry is in the Killing

List of Illustrations
Introduction
A Note on Reading Homer
One Mourners and Monuments
Two The Daughters of Memory
Three Rage for Order
Four The Words of the Sea
Five The Companion Seen but Not Heard
Six The Poetry Is in the Killing
Seven The Fire from Hephaestus
Eight Toward the Autumn Night of Oguma Hideo
Notes
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Muses
Index
Subjects


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