Volume 11, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1999
Guest Editor, D.A. Boxwell
Introduction
“The Middle Generation” of American Poetry: Wars in the Private and Public Realms by D.A. Boxwell
Special Feature
The Middle Generation and WWII: Jarrell, Shapiro, Brooks, Bishop, Lowell by Steven Gould Axelrod
Randall Jarrell’s War by Lorrie Goldensohn
Wars Civil and Uncivil: Family, Culture, and the Child in Lowell’s Poetry by Thomas Travisano
Elizabeth Bishop and World War I by Sandra Barry
“Blinking My Flashlight Off and On”: Elizabeth Bishop’s Internal Battlefield by Gary Fountain
Washington DC, 1949-1950: Bishop on WWII and The Cold War by Camille Roman
Poets On The Bomb by George Monteiro
Fiction
The Welcome by Robert Morgan
Poetry
Soliloquy: An American Bride Remembers Japan by Wendy Bishop
V-Mail by Wendy Bishop
Souvenirs by Wendy Bishop
The Collector by H. Palmer Hall
Had We A History by H. Palmer Hall
Why I Am Not A Saint by Jennifer Wheelock
Where The Tune Was Going by Paul Woodruff
The Seventh Wave by Keith Wilson
Archeology by Ana Doina
Hate by Marianne Poloskey
Buildings by Marianne Poloskey
Glenn Miller Was Missing by Jacqueline St. Joan
Paratroopers’ Night Out by William Childress
Critical Essay
Advancing in Another Direction: The Comic Book and The Korean War by D. Melissa Hilbish
Telling the “Truth” about Vietnam: Episteme and Narrative Structure in The Green Berets and The Things They Carried by Jon Volkmer
Challenging the Law of Courage and Heroic Identification in Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried by Carl S. Horner
Vietnam War Narratives and Myth of the Hero by R.J. Fertel
The Limits of Irony: The Chronillogical World of Martin Amis’ Time’s Arrow by Dermot McCarthy
Commentary
Dereliction of Duty or the Wrong War?: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam by Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.