William Daniel Ehrhart

Poetry. W.D. Ehrhart--a veteran of the Vietnam War--has written 14 books of poetry and prose, as well as 10 poetry chapbooks. SLEEPING WITH THE DEAD is a work of frustration, aggression, and compassion. Lyrical yet gritty, the poems in this collection begin with meditations/lamentations on death before moving on to examine love. A dialectic exists between what Ehrhart truly feels and believes with what he experienced as a young Marine. Ehrhart's work examines the political context--both then and now--in regard to war and death, but ultimately seeks a sense of peace and forgiveness, for others and for himself.

Sleeping with the Dead

An anthology of Vietnam War poetry, featuring the work of seventy-five poets.

The Poetry of the Vietnam War

Carrying the Darkness

Philip K. Jason

"Many of the twelve stories and fifty poems assembled [in this book] have long been out of print and are almost impossible to find in any other source. The editors have enhanced this collection by providing maps, a chronology of the Korean War, and annotated lists of novels, works of nonfiction, and films. In a detailed introduction, [the editors] discuss the milestones of the Korean War and place each fiction writer and poet represented into historical and literary contexts"--Page 4 of cover.

Stories and Poems of the Korean War

Retrieving Bones

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

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