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

 

Editor’s Choice 

Lori A. Davis Perry Henry V Before Shakespeare

 

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 and Ghirmal Negash Two Translations

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

 

Book Reviews