The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems,9780312115524

The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780312115524
ISBN10: 0312115520
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-08-15
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

The first college anthology of American literature about the Vietnam War brings together 16 stories, 5 songs, and 63 poems in an affordable text for literature and history courses.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Introduction 1(8)
STORIES 9(192)
Inside the War
14(56)
The Old Man
16(2)
Michael Paul McCusker
Thi Bong Dzu
18(7)
Larry Rottmann
The Interrogation of the Prisoner Bung by Mister Hawkins and Sergeant Tree
25(9)
David Huddle
Ben
34(7)
George Davis
Kafka for President
41(23)
Tom Mayer
The Man I Killed
64(6)
Tim O'Brien
Against the War
70(46)
The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert
76(20)
Ward Just
From Idle and Disorderly Persons
96(11)
Mary Hazzard
Moratorium
107(9)
Wayne Karlin
The Vietnam War and American Science Fiction
116(30)
The Village
123(10)
Kate Wilhelm
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things
133(13)
Karen Joy Fowler
Aftermaths
146(55)
The Heavenly Blue Answer
148(11)
Ronald Anthony Cross
Kid MacArthur
159(19)
Stephanie Vaughn
The War at Home
178(3)
Lewis Shiner
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
181(13)
Robert Olen Butler
The Last VC
194(7)
Wayne Karlin
SONGS 201(18)
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag
209(2)
Country Joe McDonald
The Ballad of the Green Berets
211(2)
Barry Sadler
Robin Moore
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Ohio
213(2)
Neil Young
Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son
215(2)
John Fogerty
Born in the U.S.A.
217(2)
Bruce Springsteen
POEMS 219(102)
A Porter on the Trail
223(2)
Larry Rottmann
Peace with Honor
225(3)
Philip Appleman
After Our War
228(1)
John Balabn
Along the Mekong
229(2)
In Celebration of Spring
231(1)
News Update
232(1)
For Mrs. Cam, Whose Name Means ``Printed Silk''
233(1)
Mau Than
234(3)
In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan
237(1)
Jan Barry
Thap Ba
238(2)
A Boom, A Billow
240(2)
Lady Borton
Vietnam Dream
242(1)
Ron Carter
OK Corral East/Brothers in the Nam
243(1)
Horace Coleman
The Adrenaline Funkie and ``The Daily Emergency''
244(3)
Gliding Baskets
247(1)
Frank A. Cross, Jr.
Rice Will Grow Again
248(2)
Guerrilla War
250(1)
W. D. Ehrhart
Making the Children Behave
251(1)
To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired
251(1)
The Invasion of Grenada
252(1)
For Mrs. Na
253(1)
Guns
253(2)
Camouflage
255(2)
Joan A. Furey
The Best Act in Pleiku, No One Under 18 Admitted
257(1)
Sharon Grant
And What Would You Do, Ma
258(1)
Steve Hassett
Christmas
258(2)
To My Siste, Ethel Ennis, Who Sang ``The Star-Spangled Banner'' at the Second Inauguration of Richard Milhous Nixon, Janunary 20, 1973
260(3)
June Jordan
The Coffee Room Soldier
263(1)
Penny Kettlewell
Prisoners
264(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
The Dead at Quang Tri
266(1)
From Staying Alive: Prologue: An Interim (i & ii)
267(1)
Denise Levertov
The Pilots
268(2)
Fragrance of Life, Odor of Death
270(1)
A Poem at Christmas, 1972, during the Terror-Bombing of North Vietnam
270(2)
From War Story
272(2)
Gerald McCarthy
Finding the War Story
274(1)
The Sound of Guns
275(2)
In This Land
277(2)
Marilyn M. McMahon
Wounds of War
279(2)
July 20, 1969... an Introduction in 3 Voices
281(2)
Dying with Grace
283(2)
Confession
285(2)
Knowing
287(3)
Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe
290(4)
Janice Mirikitani
Ceremony
294(2)
Richard M. Mishler
Morning---A Death
296(2)
Basil T. Paquet
Para la Madre de Angel Luna
298(3)
Pedro Pietri
Bury the Bady, Bury the Thought
301(1)
Stan Platke
Search and Destroy
302(1)
Dale Ritterbusch
At the Crash Site of a B-52: Jaunary 1994
303(2)
APO 96225
305(1)
Larry Rottmann
For Cissy Shellabarger, R.N., Wherever You Are
306(1)
What Kind of War?
306(1)
Thanks, Guys
307(1)
The Bones of an American M.I.A Speak to the Members of the Joint Causalty Resolution Team
308(2)
Death in Vietnam
310(1)
Luis Omar Salinas
TV Wars---First Blood Part II
311(1)
Lynda Van Devanter
For Molly
311(2)
Surrounding Blues on the Way Down
313(1)
Bruce Weigl
Burning Shit at An Khe
314(2)
Him, on the Bicycle
316(1)
Song of Napalm
317(1)
Snowy Egret
318(1)
Dialectical Materialism
319(2)
Glossary 321(3)
Bibliographies and Secondary Sources on Vietnam War Literature 324(4)
Chronology 328

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