Above the Dreamless Dead : World War I in Poetry and Comics (Hardcover)

from CarrieWuj

This is an extraordinary collection and impressive concept -- to represent the works of WWI trench poets like Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and others in graphic form. The different styles depicted by the cartoonists are well matched to their subjects and capture the essence of t...

from Sullywriter

An excellent collection of twenty World War I poems superbly illustrated by twenty leading graphic artists. Includes biographical information about each of the poets.

from Tafadhali

This is a brilliant collection of graphic novel interpretations of WWI poetry. There isn't a miss in the collection, and there is a good mix of very familiar poems (Dulce et Decorum Est) and more obscure ones. I won't lie...I cried several times.

from zzshupinga

World War I. The Great War. Death and destruction on the largest scale ever seen. And yet...a movement began with the soldiers in the trenches, writers, poets, artists, and thinkers all. They've become known as The Trench Poets, writing about the war and their experiences, not as a romantic or no...

from Ghost_Boy

Good collection of poems in comic book format. I still don't know too much about World War I, but in the intro Duffy acknowledges that he finds Americans seem to have little knowledge of the war. I remember being taught in school, but it was brief, probably because we talk more about the Civil Wa...