"Winner of the 1999 Texas Review poetry prize."

DAVID WESTHEIMER, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, is the author of fifteen novels and one nonfiction book. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal in World War II and was a POW in Italy and Germany, which provided him with material for several novels, including Von Ryan's Express and Sitting It Out.



In this volume of 56 short, crisp poems written in free verse (Westheimer says that it is really prose set up to look like poetry), the author revisits his memoir.