Contents


Volume 18:1&2
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Donald Anderson From the Editor’s Desk
Special Features
Paul West My Father at War
Gloria Emerson Rememberances by W.D. Ehrhart,
(1929–2004) Wayne Karlin, and John Balaban
William Newmiller Voices
Artwork
Roy Haley Afghanistan: A Photo Essay
Fiction
Robert MacGowan Mama’s Boy
Poetry
Joseph T. Cox Homecoming
Dale Ritterbusch Daisy Carbine Mantra
Juan J. Morales Three Poems
Brian Turner Three Poems
Amanda Buchholz Protesting Age
Vivian Shipley Three Poems
R.G. Cantalupo Letter to a Fiction Writer
Charles Cantalupo Two Translations
and Ghirmai Negash
Rochelle Mass Rockaway Parkway and Rosh Ha’ayin
John Bensko Three Poems
John Griswold I Didn’t Know
Patricia J. Mottola Two Poems
Jeffrey C. Alfier The Wintering
Jason W. Selby Commandment
Gerald McCarthy Two Poems
Critical essay
Clare Emily Clifford “Before I Was Domesticated”: Delivering the
Vietnam Moment in the Fatherhood Poetry of Bruce Weigl and John Balaban

Michael Schaefer “Heroes Had No Shame in Their Lives”: Manhood,
Heroics, and Compassion in The Red Badge
of Courage and “A Mystery of Heroism”
Elizabeth Oldman “Against such hellish mischief fit to oppose”: A
Grotian Reading of Milton’s War in Heaven
Jason S. Ridler Depleting Humanity: Environment, Technology, and
the Air War in V. M. Yeates’ Winged Victory
Joseph Fruscione “One Tale, One Telling”: Parallelism, Influence, and
Exchange between Faulkner’s The Unvanquished
and Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
Personal essay
Scott Tinley In search of the last protestor, approximately
Jason Armagost Things to Pack When You’re Bound for Baghdad
William Childress A Poet Remembers Korea
Wayne Karlin Wandering Souls
Commentary
Steven W. McCarty Southern Magnolias
Thomas McGuire The Flow of War, Suffering and Time Measured in the River-Run of Dale Ritterbusch’s Lyric Poetry
Alex Vernon War’s Return
Jesse Gatlin The Atomic Times
Keith R. Herrmann The War of Words
Editor’s Choice
Lori A. Davis Perry Henry V Before Shakespeare
Reviews