Volume 10, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1998
Guest Editor, Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.

Introduction

This Thing Called Vietnam by Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.

Special Feature

Remembering Tet: A Conversation with Vietnam War Veteran Poets by Verner D. Mitchell

War, Poetry, & Ethics: A Symposium

Yusuf Komunyakaa, D. F. Brown, W. D. Ehrhart, Dale Ritterbusch, John Balaban, John Clark Pratt, and Kali Tal, Moderator

Poetry

Poem Still Burning: A note for “The Teeth Mother Naked at Last” by Robert Bly by Will Hochman

The Teeth Mother Naked at Last by Robert Bly

“I Sing of Arms and the Man” introductory essay by Philip Appleman

Five Poems, from Open Doorways by Philip Appleman

Artwork

A Different Species of Time, introductory essay by John Wolfe

Artwork by John Wolfe

Critical Essay

War, Memory, Imagination by Donald Anderson

Humanities at the Hanoi Hilton by Alfred Kern

Pentagon Princess and Wayward Sister: Vietnam POW Wives in American Literature by Maureen Ryan

Surviving the Hanoi Hilton by Elizabeth A. Muenger

“He’s not my son anymore!”: The Returning Veteran in Robert Bausch’s On the Way Home by Catherine Calloway

A Lotus of Everlasting Fragrance: Nguyen Trai, 1380-1442 by Tran Van Dinh

Dissident Voices: The NVA Experience in Novels by Vietnamese by William J. Searle

Bringing the War Home to the “Holler”: Teaching Vietnam for “Core” and Country by Edward F. Palm

Conversation Across a Century: The War Stories of Ambrose Bierce and Tim O’Brien by Christopher D. Campbell

The Things They Carried as Composite Novel by Farrell O’Gorman

Personal Essay

Epiphany in Memphis by Jeff Loeb

Fiction

from Show Time by Terry P. Rizzuti

from The Indochina Safari by Robert MacGowan

Interview

Bound by Honor, introductory essay by Jack M. Shuttleworth

A Conversation with Fredrick Kiley, co-author of Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 by Jack M. Shuttleworth