Contents


Volume 20:1&2
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Special Features
Thomas G. Bowie / War, Literature and the Arts 20th Anniversary Commentary
Teaching Humanities at America’s Military Academies
Brian Hanley / Why Studying the Literature of War is Important
Thomas Vargish / War & Literature: A Reciprocity
Thomas McGuire / War Literature, the Constitution, and Fostering Reluctant Killers
Donald Anderson / When War Becomes Personal
Geoffrey Galt Harpham / The Depths of the Heights: Reading Conrad with America’s Soldiers
Max Despain / Telling True War Stories

Artwork
The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, introduced and selected by Jerry Kykisz

Interview
Jan Ellen Spiegel and Will Hochman / Beyond War Poetry: War, Literature and the Heart of a Poet / An Interview with John Balaban

Fiction
Sean Miller / The Lord’s Work
Joseph Keith Kreidel / The Colors of Redemption
Laura Hope-Gill / Psalm 51
Andrea Lewis / Accelerated Biology

Book Excerpt

Memoir
Tony Thang Nguyen / In Desperation

Poetry
Andrew J. Kenney / "Hey Man, How's Life?"
John Balaban / Four Poems
Chuck Rybak / Purple Heart
John Kay / Two Poems
Marilyn Kallet / A Feast for Dogs and Birds
Jehanne Dubrow / Argos
James Deahl / Clay Jars
R. S. Carlson / Supply Run
Lisa Siedlarz / Enduring Freedom
Edward McCrorie / Four Poems
Yahya Frederickson / Keeping My Father
Jeffery C. Alfier / Mansfield Avenue
Tom Sheehan / The Municipal Subterranean
Joseph T. Cox / Second Tour
R. K. Johnston / Earth’s Next Era—The Age of Loneliness
William Childress / Wondering How James Dickey Died

Critical Essay
William V. Davis / “Good Luck in Cracked Italian”: Richard Hugo in Italy
John Griswold / “Praise to Those Still Coming Through On Song”: An Appreciation of John Balaban
Thomas Vargish / The Authority of Crises
Matthew Teorey / Unmasking the Gentleman Soldier in the Memoirs of Two Cross-Dressing Female U.S. Civil War Soldiers
Tracy L. Strauss / Trauma’s Dialectic in Civil War Literature and Film
Ann Elias / War and the visual language of flowers: an antipodean perspective
Robert Blaskiewicz / James Jones on Guadalcanal
Verner D. Mitchell / A Family Answers the Call: Anita Scott Coleman, Literature, and War

Personal Essay
Constantine Evans / Legacy

Commentary
James Gleason Bishop / “she whose eyes are open forever”: Does Protest Poetry Matter?
W. D. Ehrhart / Words for John Balaban
Thomas C. Ware / Fiction Still Fights the Civil War: “It Ain’t Over Though It’s Over”

Recall Roster

Editor’s Choice
Donald Anderson / Soldier Talk

Books
Reviews