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'Soldier's Heart': Why we ask West Point cadets to wrestle with poetry
Elizabeth Samet writes of her decade spent teaching literature at West Point. By MARJORIE KEHE from the October 30, 2007 edition: The Christian Science Monitor Elizabeth Samet has been teaching literature to cadets at West Point since 1996. It's not a career Samet would have envisioned for herself during her student days at Harvard and Yale (and certainly not as a teen at an all-girls school in Boston) but, as she makes clear in Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature through Peace and War at West Point, a thoughtful meditation on her work there, it's become a calling. Read More...
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