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2026 VOLUME 37 War, Literature & the Arts Artist & Tuskegee Airman Clarence Shivers AT THE PERIMETER ECHOES OF GLOBAL CONFLICT Edward Wood, Jr. Excerpts On Being Wounded & "The Paradox of Los Alamos" Eighth Century Chinese War Poetry Poetry, Fiction, Translations, Reviews & More Interviews with Alex Kershaw & Ashley Hand Eight Decades of WWII Narratives ABOUT ARCHIVES / FOLIOS SUBMIT SEARCH

War, Literature & the Arts In 1989 WLA was launched as a simple collection of six essays examining the nexus of culture, conflict, and war. More than three decades later, WLA continues its exploration through a growing range of creative genres. Artists of all types share wars' jagged and fragmented horrors alongside its provocative and captivating narratives. Our volumes have included works by Paul West, Andre Dubus, John Balaban, W.D. Ehrhart, Robert Gajdusek, Roxana Robinson, Dunya Mikhail, Sara Nović, Donald Anderson, Benjamin Busch, Brian Turner, Dale Ritterbusch, Claudia Hauer, Thomas Vargish, Elizabeth Samet, and many others over the last 34 years . We are honored to share these voices with you, and we invite you to join the conversation by submitting your work for publication consideration. Please look through our many volumes to experience the growing range of genres and perspectives that make up the WLA community. Capt. Nisson's Triage by John Wolfe, WLA cover, Vol 10, No. 2, 1998 ARCHIVES / FOLIOS SEARCH SUBMIT

War, Literature & the Arts Volume 34 Table of Contents View Vol 34 Cover EDITOR'S NOTE Thomas McGuire / Farewells, Hails and A Brief Tribute EDITOR'S CHOICE John Balaban / Passing Through A Gate & Escort (poems) AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT Bruce Weigl / Patrick Hicks Interviews Bruce Weigl & Five Poems ARTWORK Terry Graff / Revenge of the Warbirds: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Nature PERSONAL ESSAY Maiwand Banayee / Toy Bombs Susan Howard / My Son’s War Will McGee / What It is Like to Never Go to War POETRY Michael Casey / Scars, Comma, High School Fights Brendan Corcoran / Three Poems Robert Hedin / Two Poems Maureen Hurley / War’s End (3 Days After Hiroshima) Phillip Parotti / Three Poems Shannon Huffman Polson / Hovering David Poynor / After Milton Rachel Rix / Two Poems Larry D. Thomas / Winter Trees Seth Brady Tucker / Dipshit Nation MEMOIR Francis Doherty / Dear John Renata Golden / Groundhog Days CREATIVE NONFICTION L. Rubin / On Pandemics (and other expected disasters) FICTION Sylvia Bowersox / The Baghdad Morgue R. D. Edwards / Time Fuzed CRITICAL ESSAYS Lawrence Abbott / A Little War Music: The Songs of Vince Gabriel, Jason Moon, and Emily Yates Scott Emmert / Ring Lardner’s Comic War Jeff Loeb / The Dead: Loss of Self in the Literature of the Vietnam War Joshua Roling / Sites of Language, Sites of Pain: Sula in Modern Memory BOOK REVIEWS Ross Gresham, Caroline Hampshire & Todd Chapman All Reviews Cartography: Navigating a Year in Iraq by Katherine Schifani Forces: Poems by Lisa Stice Among Elms, in Ambush by Bruce Weigl FILM COMMENTARY Jonathan Lighter / Women in the WWII War Zone & Four U.S. Cavalry Movies A RCHIVES RETURN TO

Front Cover ARCHIVES RETURN TO Front Cover Notes on Contributors Preface James R. Aubrey Correspondent Visions of Vietnam Mark A. Heberle The Search for Closure: Vietnam War Literature and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Charles J. Gaspar War and Festivity in Gravity's Rainbow Christopher Ames Thomas Mann's Wartime Reflections James Seaton Hastings and Roland: The Triumph of the Mounted Knight Michael C. C. Adams Grain and Glory: Eating Practices in Homer's Iliad Michele M. Sordi

A RCHIVES RETURN TO Front Cover Back Cover "Glamourous Melancholy": R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End Steven Trout An I for an Eye: Edmund Blunden's War Thomas G. Bowie, Jr. Whitsun and Beyond: Continuing the Great War Elizabeth A. Muenger Not Always Located in Nicaragua (poem) Will Hochman Commentary Tom F. Baldy Reflections on the Great War John Clark Pratt Writing about Flying: A Pilot's View Book Reviews Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow Writers and the First World War, 1919-1939 by Rosa Maria Bracco Robert Perry Poetry of the World Wars edited by Michael Foss Jackson A. Niday II The Vietnam War in Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism by Philip K. Jason John Newman War and Television by Bruce Cumings Matthew Stewart

A RCHIVES RETURN TO Volume 27 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Donald Anderson / War Chatter SPECIAL FEATURE Brian Turner / The 9th Annual David L. Jannetta Distinguished Lecture in War, Literature & the Arts EDITOR'S CHOICE Kathleen Harrington / No Man's War : a conversation with Angela Ricketts AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT Thomas G. McGuire / A Conversation with Brian Turner Sean Purio / Patrick Hicks's The Commandant of Lubizec Thomas G. McGuire / A Conversation with Bryan Doerries Brandon Lingle / A Conversation with Jesse Goolsby ARTWORK Brandon Lingle / The Art of Richard Johnson POETRY Vincent Casaregola / Contrails Barbara Persnell / How to Cuss in French David K. Vaughan / Dak To II Donald Welch / Two Poems Dan O' Brien / Three Poems Levi Bollinger / Sestina for Finn A. M. Gwynn / Blood and Water H. C. Palmer / Resurrection (A Fable) Dale Ritterbusch / Four Poems Phillip Pitts / No God for Dog Kassandra Montag / Two Poems Jimmy Pappas / Two Poems Greg McBride / Research Dermatologist and I, the Army Photographer Kim Malinowski / Great Uncle Michael H. Levin / Bougainville Christopher Locke / Ecotours, Ltd. Adam Graaf / Two Poems D. A. Gray / Negative Space William Hudson / After Nam Anne Hohenstein / When They Found You Lisa Gray Fisher / The Double P. H. Crosby / French’s Field II Taylor Collier / Mutilations: Custer Amber Adams / Medevac Aileen Bassis / Vukovar Walls Nancy Boutilier / Sweeping D. Brian Anderson / Two Poems David Keplinger / Three Poems Patrick Gordon / Full Bird in Flight MEMOIR Malinda Fillingim / Wars, Near and Far Adina Siperman / Army Wife Julie Wittes Schlack / Signs Alyssa Martino / Free Falling Soldier Samuel F. Lanckton / Everyone Breaks Larry Schreiber / Nong Chan Camp, 1980 (Rice in her Mouth) CREATIVE NONFICTION Thomas D. Praino / The Cave of Clay Urns Frank Light / Old School New School Paul Crenshaw / The Hornet Among Us Juliet Barney / In Observance PERSONAL ESSAY J. F. Newman / What a Hammer Can Do Brooke N. King / Dogtags CRITICAL ESSAY Kathy Phillips / Mass Nakedness in the Imaginary of the Nazis Shane Emplaincourt / Joyeux Noёl and Remembering the Christmas Truce of 1914 Martin T. Buinicki and David M. Owens / The Last Campaign of John Brown’s Body: West Point and America’s Forgotten Civil War Epic Matthew Hill / Michael Casey’s Obscenities: A Critique of Workaday Brutality Jennifer Haytock / Women’s/War Stories: The Female Gothic and Women’s War Trauma in Helen Benedict’s Sand Queen Joyce Wexler / The New Heroism Vivian Zenari / Henry James’s Civil War Stories: The Homefront Experience and War Romance Robert Magella / Rupert Brooke and Isaac Rosenberg: Myth, Modernity, and the Destabilization of Georgian War Poetry Sarah Montin / “Not Flowers for Poets’ tearful foolings”: First World War Poetry, flowers and the Pastoral Failure Peter C. Molin / A “Phrase Too Cute to Do Our Ugliness Justice”: Portraying “Wounded Warriors” in Contemporary War Fiction Dean Kritikos / The Home Front Waste Land: Williams, Zukofsky, and Epistemology after Eliot Nina H. B. Jørgensen / Responding to the Effect of the Holocaust in the Present: A Comparison of Narrative Strategies in Time’s Arrow , A Blessing on the Moon , and The Reader David Kramer / The Spanish-American War as a Bourgeois Testing Ground: Richard Harding Davis, Frank Norris and Stephen Crane Hilary Lithgow / “It’s All Good”: Forms of Belief and the Limits of Irony in David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers Maria Geiger / No Trench Required: Validating the Voices of Female Poets of WWI Ty Hawkins / Bobbie Ann Mason’s The Girl in the Blue Beret : Aesthetic Experimentation, Evil, and American Cultural Memory of “The Good War” Ross Griffin / History with a Human Face: Creative Nonfiction and the Oral Histories of the Vietnam War Carlos Villar Flor / Happy Warriors in Arms: Aspects of military life in Evelyn Waugh’s Put Out More Flags and Sword of Honour Laura Dunbar / “I can soljer with any man”: The Post 9-11 Renaissance of James Jones Rance D. Denton / “Most Distant and Most Dear”: Clausewitzian Conflicts in Kipling’s Barrack-Room Ballads Daniel M. Clayton / Whitewashing WWII Sexual Memory Ann Elias / Obliteration: the camouflaged body, Australia, and photography in modern war COMMENTARY Katey Schultz / On Patriotism & the Language of GWOT Caleb S. Cage / Heroes and Victims BOOK REVIEWS FILM REVIEWS

Table of Contents Volume 28, 2016 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Donald Anderson / Take a Message to Rumsfeld MEMOIR Mike McCallister / A Death in Nicaragua Barrett Bowlin / As Is Martin Naparsteck / Before Going to War Johnathan Burgess / Chai Party Bobby Briggs / Service with a Smile Jeff Loeb / Measuring the Seasons. FICTION 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 Puri o / 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 Brow n / 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 FILM A RCHIVES RETURN TO

SPOTLIGHT ARTIST José Antonio Arellano Clarence Shivers Tuskegee Airman's Art and Influence MOSAIC MEMOIR IN John Guzlowski War's Generational Trauma Growing Up with Two Survivors of WWII & Seven Poems Edward W. Wood, Jr. The Paradox of Los Alamos Excerpts On Being Wounded AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT Button Button Button Button ART CRITICAL ESSAYS Thomas Aiello Loyalty to Suffering: Europe Central, Vollman's Telephonist, and the Absurd George O. Liber Orwell, Stalin's World, and Putin's Russia: Masha Karp's George Orwell and Russia Sarah Wade War Narratives and Mourning in Willa Cather's One of Ours and Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth PERSONAL ESSAY DESIGN DIRECTOR NOTE ON WWII EPHEMORA ABOVE James Mayo “The clover leafs I sent you:” A Long War, A Long Wait, and a Long Walk Terry Graff Don Bonham's Life and Art: Beauty and Horror of War Machines POETRY D.F. Brown Knots Michael Casey Old Men Kevin Clark Two Poems Carol V. Davis Three Poems Holly Day Five Poems Benjamin Fortier Notional Ceridwen Hall Three Poems karla k. morton My Brother and I at 58 and 60 Ann Neelon Two Poems Fred Reinhart Anticlimax, 1943 Jacob Reisinger Portraits of My Reintegration Philip Metres The Red Hands of Ulster INTERVIEWS TRANSLATIONS Christopher P. Wilson My Aftermath: John Hersey, My Father, and the Rewriting of Hiroshima FILM REVIEWS Thomas Bowie Preserving The Legacy of World War II Stories: A Conversation with Alex Kershaw Hugh Martin On Military Service & Writing Fiction: Conversation with Ashley Hand Robert Hedin Two Harry Martinson Poems Aaron Poochigian Seven Tang Chinese War Poems Jonathan Lighter Four World War II Films: Guadalcanal Diary , A Walk in the Sun , Gung Ho! and Story of G.I. Joe Jonathan Lighter Full Metal Jacket Lanny Hunter A Veteran's Read of The Deer Hunter (1978) BOOK REVIEWS John Balaban Review of W.D. Ehrhart's Smart Fish Don't Bite Laura Joyce-Hubbard Review of Deborah Paredez's Y ear of the Dog FICTION Keith Jardim Strange Meetings Excerpt from In the Garden of the Dictator's Sweet Delight (novel in progress) Robert Perron Absent Without Leave ABOUT ARCHIVES / FOLIOS SUBMIT