Table of Contents
Volume 28, 2016
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Donald Anderson / Take a Message to Rumsfeld
Alex Kershaw / The 10th Annual David L. Jannetta Distinguished Lecture in War, Literature & the Arts
MEMOIR
Mike McCallister / A Death in Nicaragua
Martin Naparsteck / Before Going to War
Johnathan Burgess / Chai Party
Bobby Briggs / Service with a Smile
Jeff Loeb /Measuring the Seasons
Nazli Artemia / The Unicorn Story without an Ending
Devin Murphy / How We Disappear
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Sean Purio / Tongues, Tables, and Ears: A Conversation with John Guzlowski
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Nicola Brooke / The Art of the Interview : Svetlana Alexievich’s Zinky Boys
Sean Purio / Crossings and Connections: A Conversation with Elliot Ackerman
ARTWORK
Colin Halloran / Visual Art as Text: a conversation with WLA’s Art Director Brandon Lingle
Ben Brody / Foreverstan: The Drawdown
POETRY
Juleigh Howard-Hobson / After the Whizbang 1917
Jehanne Dubrow / Three Poems Diana
Lynn Fesko / 1968 Windsor Hotel Bangkok Death Valley
Dale Ritterbusch / Two Poems
MK Sukach / Raising the Dogs of War
Farzana Marie / Sonless
Cindy Veach / At the Wall
Randy Brown / fighting seasons
Christopher Mahon / Poets for Peace
David Bublitz / Combat Pay
Corey Thrasher / What Strength
Brad Kavo / Silencing Khe Sanh
Allen Stein / Henry Fleming’s Faded Red Badge
Michael Estabrook / Heaven and Earth
Elizabeth Crowell / Books in Cottages
Alex Walsh / Two Poems
Lisa Gray Fisher / A Walk in the Park
Joshua Barnett / Black Jack
Benjamin Goluboff / Ho Chi Minh’s Sense of Humor
Lawrence W. Sharp / Poets at War
W.D. Ehrhart / Praying at the Altar
Stephen Cloud / Minor Incidents of War
Chad Grasmuck / Oral Tradition
John Buquoi / Two Poems
Beth Bachmann / Two Poems
Michael Bernicchi / Paper Dunes
Robert Hedin / Two Poems
Chris Herlinger / Mourning General Giap
Liz Solms / Undergarments
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Steven Moore / Of Creativity
Sue Newcomb Mowrer / How Hiram Really Died and What Came After
PERSONAL ESSAY
Thomas O’Grady / The Things He Carried: An Irish Private in the
King’s (Liverpool) Regiment
Ken Hruby / Dancing and Fighting
CRITICAL ESSAY
Travis Martin / "Working Through" Societal Trauma in The Last Flight, Heroes for Sale, and All Quiet on the Western Front
James Byrne / Seamus Heaney, Francisco Goya, and Unveiling the Myth of History
Jonathan Lighter / Michael Herr’s Lurp Tale
Ezekiel Black / Troubling Glory: The Uncertain Language Shift of World War I Maureen Ryan / Intra Species Communication: Memory, Story-Telling, and Football in American Fiction of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Myra Mendible / Saving Face: Humiliation, Shame, and the Affective Economy of War
Jonathan Jones / Strangers in the World of the Emotions: Re-evaluating
L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between
Christina Jarvis / Displaced Trauma and the Legacies of the Vietnam
War in Hocus Pocus
Tim Wenzell / Literary Conscientious Objector: e.e. cummings and The Great War
Shane Emplaincourt / Un long dimanche de fiançailles and
Remembering la Somme 1916
Steve Lukits / “They that have power to hurt but will do none”: Lying in
the Literature of the Great War
Jeff Morgan / Hemingway and the Cuban Revolution: For Whom the
Bell Tolls on the Sierra Maestra
Cristina Pividori / Searching for the Happy Battalion in Times of Crisis: Fraternal Friendships and the Heroic in the Great War Memoirs of Guy Chapman and Charles Carrington
Shabnam Piaryaei / The Victory Belongs to Love
COMMENTARY
Tyrell Mayfield / Reflections on Redeployment
Alex Vernon / Field Notes on The Things They Carried
James Gleason Bishop / Grandpa Goes to War
Jessica Hellmann / High Skies and Fat Horses
INTERVIEW
Jesse Goolsby / A Group Conversation with Veteran Artists David Abrams, Jerri Bell, Brian Castner, and Colin Halloran
Haley Michael Hasik & Eric L. Gruver / Warrior for Freedom and Souls: Navigator, POW, Minister
Dale Ritterbusch / A Conversation with Jane Irish
Megan Kahn / Veteran Homecoming Stories: A conversation with Justin Hudnall
BOOKS
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