Volume 8, Number 2, Fall/Winter 1996

Special Feature

Selected Work by W.D. Ehrhart: The Summer I Learned to Dance (personal essay), I Drink my Coffee Black (fiction), The Sergeant (poetry), A Bibliography

Critical Essay

Against a Coming Extinction: W.D. Ehrhart and the Envolving Canon of Vietnam Veteran’s Poetry by Lorrie Smith

Tim O’Brien’s Re-imagination of Reality: An Exercise in Metafiction by John Clark Pratt

Commentary

Darkness Carried: W.D. Ehrhart’s Memoirs by Donald Anderson

“Everyday I’m always on patrol”: Bill Ehrhart’s Journey Home by Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.

Poetry

Tryolean Vacation by Karen Alkalay-Gut

Langour by H. Palmer Hall

Hospital Visit by H. Palmer Hall

The Vietnam Vet Plays Gyruss by Vince Gotera

Gulf War Haiku by Vince Gotera

The Bomb by Ed Meek

Duty by Ed Meek

For Lewis B. Puller, Jr. by Maggie Jaffe

Fiction

Echoes by Don Kunz

from The Second Tour by Terry P. Rizzuti

Point Man by Allen Learst

Interview

Reading, Writing, and Going to War: An interview with Clyde Edgerton by Christopher D. Campbell

A Conversation with W.D. Ehrhart by Donald Anderson and Thomas G. Bowie, Jr.