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Unaccustomed Mercy
Every poet in this anthology represents the terrible beauty that Vietnam engendered in sensitive hearts, the curious grace with which the human spirit can endow even the ugliest realities."No one will get out of this volume without being hammered in the heart and singed in the soul. I could touch the tears on page after page."--Wallace Terry
The Nightmare Considered
These essays assess the nature of nuclear war literature from a variety of perspectives. Scholars, activists, novelists, poets, and teachers challenge nuclear ideologies and traditional readings of apocalyptic texts. Included: Holocaust literature of the 1950s, Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, poetry and nuclear war, Riddley Walker, Fiskadoro, haiku and Hiroshima, Kopit's End of the World, O'Brien's The Nuclear Age, and Vonnegut's cataclysmic novels.
The Turning
The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in which a substantial number of military personnel actively protested the war while it was in progress. In The Turning, Andrew Hunt reclaims the history of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), an organization that transformed the antiwar movement by placing Vietnam veterans in the forefront of the nationwide struggle to end the war. Misunderstood by both authorities and radicals alike, VVAW members were mostly young men who had served in Vietnam and returned profoundly disillusioned with th...
Mended Hearts
This heartwarming story begins with a young family living in New York. This united family is struggling financially, yet do their best with what they have. That is, until a sudden incident occurs that makes everything seem hopeless. Their circumstances will soon unexpectedly change and their lives will improve. Another delightful family is hardworking and also struck by sudden disaster, resulting in major changes. As time passes things begin to fall back into place, but nothing is ever the same. Hearts are broken and the sufferings and many hardships that each family member endures challenges the family units. Feelings of self-doubt, being unloved and being unwanted arise. At the most unlikely moment, two people from the families meet. These individuals quickly become torn between their attraction for each other and their family responsibilities. The story uncovers whether their romance will have a heartache and disappointing ending and what decisions they will be faced with.
Dead on a High Hill
A new collection of Bill Ehrhart's essays--25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War failures of American policy-makers to life in 21st century Vietnam; the trenches of the Western Front, the mountains of Korea, the sands of Iraq; from the value of one's name to the cowardice of Congress; mountain gorillas in Rwanda, the journalist Gloria Emerson, teaching poetry to teenagers; on the famous (Wilfred Owen) and the obscure (Robert James Elliott).... These essays explore the fallacies of history, the madness of war, the craft of poetry, the profession of teaching, and the art of living.
