Few Americans were impartial on the matter of the Victnam War, and artists were no exception. In particular, many writers spoke out on the conflict in southeast Asia — most against it. In Cannibas and Christidns (1966), for instance, Norman Mailer attacked the war, while John Steinbeck offered a more traditionally patriotic stance the same year in America and Americans. Renowned poet Robert Lowell joined Mailer in the October l967 march The Armies of the Night (1968), and other poets, such as Denise Levertov and Allen Ginsberg, spoke out against the war, both in their poetry and in speeches. In 1968 poet Robert Bly, given the National Book Award for his volume The Light around the Body, made the headlines by announcing that he would donate his one-thousand-dollar prize to a group that helped people evade the draft "as an appropriate use of an award for...