Table of Contents
Volume 33, 2021
RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH NEW WLA EDITOR
After 33 years, Donald Anderson is retiring as Editor of WLA. Longtime Poetry Editor Thomas McGuire is assuming the reins effective 1 January 2022: Thomas.McGuire@afacademy.af.edu
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Donald Anderson / Fat Man in the Middle
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Thomas G. Bowie, Jr. / To Search for Understanding: A Conversation with Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock about Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath
SPECIAL FEATURES
Elliot Ackerman / The 14th Annual David L. Jannetta Distinguished Lecture in War, Literature & the Arts
H. C. Palmer / Falling (poetry) / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire (fiction)
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
Allison Trueblood / Donald Anderson’s QUAGMIRE: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
José Antonio Arellano / A Hopeful Eulogy: Pablo Miguel Martinez’s Poem about the Longoria Affair
CRITICAL ESSAYS
Shane A. Emplaincourt / La Vie et rien d’autre: Remembering the Aftermath of the First World War and the Unknown Soldier
Nicholas James Kaizer / Voice from the Ranks: Virtues of the Army and Society in The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
Stephen Carter / “What Made a Story, to Begin With?” Visibility and Vantage Point in the War Correspondence of Martha Gellhorn, Michael Herr, and Dexter Filkins
Gary Mills / How We Witness and Share War’s Horror
FICTION
Brian O’Hare / The Mail Thief
PERSONAL ESSAY
J. Malcolm Garcia / Aftermath
POETRY
Robert Lowes / Such Rippling Flags
Shree La Puma / The Dark in Me; Tiny Windows
Sara Katz / War Makes You an Animal
Ed Meek / So Many Men
Robert Ronnow / The Recent and Long Dead
Holly Day / Two Poems
Stan Hodson / Two Poems
Yahya Frederickson / Schumacher’s Lens
J.S. Alexander / Two Poems
Carol Lynn Grellas / Save Our Souls
Karl Michel / Thank You For Your Service
D. F. Brown / What Love Makes of Us
W. D. Ehrhart / The Night You Returned
MEMOIR
Jeff Loeb / Moral Archeology
Marilyn Moriarty / A Beautiful Mess: Paris, 1945
FILM REVIEWS by Jonathan Lighter
Midway (1976) / Midway (2019)
The Last Full Measure (2019)
Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
Amen. (2002)
Glory (1989)
The Victors (1963)
BOOK REVIEW by Lori A. Davis Perry
Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642-1722 by Sharon Alker and
Holly Faith Nelson