Foreword
Soldier-Poets of the Korean War
Soldier's Leave, 52
Korea Bound, 1952, 53
Letter Home, 54
The Soldiers, 55
Shellshock, 57
Combat Iambic, 58
Death of a General, 59
The Long March, 60
The War Lesson, 61
For My First Son, 62
Trying to Remember People I Never Really Knew, 63
Burning the Years, 65
The Old Army Game, 75
Rookies Under Stress Acting Tough, 77
Friendly Fire, 78
The Evening Shift, 79
A Sheaf of Percussion Fire, 81
The Eight Army at Chongchon, 83
Chinaman's Hat, 85
Rear Guard Action I, 87
Rear Guard Action II, 89
Rear Guard Action III, 91
Rest Due and Taken, 92
Possession for All Time, 94
The January-May 1951 Slaughter, 96
Until Further Orders the 219th Field Is Firing Blind, 98
Night Burial Details, 100
Boston John McCreedy Drinks with Certain Lewd Men of the Baser Sort, 105
Incoming, 108
Above All, the Waste, 113
New Battery Position, 114
Brodkey's Replacement, 117
One Solution, 119
Liquor Ration, 122
Jacob Mosqueda Wrestles with the Angels, 124
Visiting Hours, 126
Fit for Duty, 128
Old Friends, 232
Kobe Station, 135
Nagoya Station, 137
Brief Encounter, 140
At Sonny's and Tsuruko's, 142
At the Aoyama, 144
Hiro Watanabe, 145
South to Nara, 146
The Last Day, 147
Up Before the Board, 149
A Matter of Supplies, 151
This Is Where We Came In, 153
Vale, 155
Elegy for the Valiant Dead, 161
The Man Without a Face, 163
Christ of Battle, 164
Zero Minus One Minute, 166
To a Chinaman, in a Hole, Long Ago, 167
Soldier of the Night, 168
Repository, 169
The Rayer of the Former Infantryman, 171
Instruction, 172
One War is AJ Wars, 176
Leaving These Woods to the Hunters, 177
LiMe Rituals, 179
Re-runs, 180
They Said, 181
Flag Memoir, 182
Korea 1953,191
The Korean, 193
Without 'Laying Claim, 194
I Remember, 195
Pusan Liberty, 196
Sure, 198
The Day the Dam Burst, 199
The Awakening, 200
Echoes, Seafalls for Heloise, 205
The Captain, 206
. . . ganz in Waffen, 207
Guerilla Camp, 209
The Singer, 211
The Circle, 213
High Noon, 215
The Girl, 218
Guns, 219
Waterfront Bars, 220
The Mistress, 222
December, 1952, 224
The Flag, 226
Combat Mission, 227
Cargo, 228
Commentary, 230
Truce, 232
The Ex-Officer, Navy, 234
The Poem Politic 4, 235
Memory of a Victory, 237
Corsair, 238