Return to Volume 34 "The bond between war veterans is a terrible and wonderful thing." Bruce Weigl in an interview with Patrick Hicks Hicks Interviews Bruce Weigl Five Poems

Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO A Boatman's Story (memoir) Robert MacGowan Shadow Warrior Donald Clay Serpent Knowledge (poetry) Robert Pinsky Alms for the Burned David A. Willson A Centenary Daniel Tobin Shaman Joseph T. Cox McNamara's Makeshift Amends (commentary) Donald Anderson Achilles in Vietnam Brian Hanley Falling in Love (fiction) Andre Dubus from Vows and Infidelities Alfred Kern Book Reviews Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America by W. D. Ehrhart Donald Anderson In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff James H. Meredith Vietnam War Films edited by Jean-Jacques Malo and Tony Williams Richard S. Keating Aftermath: An Anthology of Post-Vietnam Fiction by Donald Anderson Patricia L. Skarda Fortunate Son by Lewis Puller Anthony Arthur Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War by Donald Ringnalda Philip K. Jason Farewell, Darkness by Ron Zaczek Susan Ross Letters to the Editor

A RCHIVES RETURN TO Volume 18 Numbers 1 & 2 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

Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO Fatal Symbiosis: Modernism and World War I Milton A. Cohen George Gascoigne and The Spoyle of Antwerpe (1576) William E. Sheidley Thomas Wolfe and the Civil War Thomas Bonner, Jr. Writing War: John Dos Passos' One Man's Initiation Stephen C. Enniss Before Wars (poetry) Wendy Bishop LOCKE-HAVEN AT LARGE (fiction) Charles Clerc Book Reviews Virginia Woolf and War: Fiction, Reality, and Myth edited by Mark Hussey D. A. Boxwell Patriotic Culture in Russia During World War I by Hubertus F. Jahn Howard Swartz Titus Andronicus: Critical Essays edited by Philip C. Kolin Kathi A. Vosevich Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography by David S. Reynolds David Haven Blake A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton Susanne Burgess Secret Army, Secret War by Sedgwick Tourison Steven W. Legrand Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia by Richard Stites Howard Swartz The Oxford Companion to World War II edited by I.C.B. Dear and M.R.D. Foot Reporting World War II: Part One: American Journalism 1938-1944 and Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946 by New York: Library of America My War by Andy Rooney James H. Meredith

A RCHIVES RETURN TO Front Cover Back Cover Contents (Vol 10.1) -special feature- Richard Wilbur's World War II Poetry/ 1 David Haven Blake Richard Wilbur: An Interview/ 7 Joseph T. Cox Italy: Maine/ 23 Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur's Early Writing: Amherst College and World War II/ 24 John Lancaster and Jack W. C. Hagstrom "Versifying in Earnest": Richard Wilbur's War and His Poetry/ 37 Joseph T. Cox Mind and World in Richard Wilbur's War Poetry/ 49 Jewel Spears Brooker -poetry- A State of Grace in Another War Zone/ 91 Tia Ballantine Dien Bien Phu/ 93 Bill Lantry Clueless in Paradise/ 94 Rachel Loden Etudes/ 96 Americans Playing Slow-Pitch Softball at an Airbase near Kunsan, South Korea/ 98 Halvard Johnson End of a century/ 103 Ana Doina Footnote and Detail/ 104 R. S. Carlson Brian Explains His Anniversary/ 107 Beth Simon Verdun/ 111 Daryl Bach Woman on Her Way to Market/ 112 Colin Morton Entering War, Being Literal/ 113 Gwyn McVay -photography- "The Camera is a Shield": John Hoagland, Combat Photographer/ 115 Maggie Jaffe -prose poem- The Colonel/ 130 Carolyn Forche -special feature- A Conversation with Paul West/ 133 Thomas G. McGuire Three Fictions/ 166 Paul West The Face(s) of War in Paul West's Fiction/ 169 Thomas G. McGuire -essay- Accommodation and Resistance in Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper's The Colored Cadet at West Point (1878) / 73 Verner D. Mitchell When Hamlet Meets the Bomb: the Poetry and Criticism of John Gery / 187 Don Zimmerman Two Poems/ 201 John Gery A-Bomb, a recollection/ 205 Jesse Gatlin Public Information, a memoir/ 207 William R. Weir The French Connection or How "Figaro" Saved the American Revolution/ 236 Ann Reagan Depicting the Oblique: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Response to the American Civil War/ 260 Paul R. Cappucci -fiction- Missing / 227 Don Kunz -reviews- Recall Roster/ 274 D. A. Boxwell -miscellany- Book Reviews/ 283 Guest Editor/ 304 Contributors/ 305

Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO The Memoirs of Pierre Pouchot: A Soldier's View of a Doomed Campaign Michael Cardy Severed Ears: An Image of the Vietnam War Constance A. Brown The Narrative Technique Used by Goethe to Portray War in "Campaign in France" Steven Kaplan Cabrini's Run--'71 (Poem) R. S. Carlson Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator by Samuel Hynes The British Military Dilemma in Ireland: Occupation Politics, 1886-1914 by Elizabeth A. Muenger Book Reviews by E. H. Petersen, David O. Boxwell & Tom F. Baldy

Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO The Foe in Sight: Discovering the Enemy in Donne's Elegie XIX Cheryl A. Shell Sisters in Arms Donna Connolly Lines and Shadows (photographs) Anne Wells Ladow from Between Bombardments (poems) Karen Alkalay-Gut Commentary Crystal M. Jonas Writing War: Fiction, Gender and Memory by Lynn Hanley War Journal of an Innocent Soldier by John T. Bassett Lonely Girls with Burning Eyes by Marian Faye Novak Writers on World War II: An Anthology edited by Mordecai Richler Book Reviews by Patricia L. Skarda, E. A. Muenger, Rosemary A. King & E. A. Rowe Letters to the Editor

CRITICAL ESSAYS David Craig Waking from and into Trauma: Joseph Heller and the Dream of the Familiar Stranger Hugh Martin instead, it is dark A Conversation with Cynthia Hogue AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Terry Graff Feathers and Flak Benjamin Cooper Veteran Descendants J.D. Mathes The Homelessness of the Brave Robert Miner Home and Where the Heart Is Lucas Randolph When it Falls Maureen Drennan Veterans' Sense of Community Anika Jensen Wounded Bodies and the Affective Politics of Disgust in Ellen La Motte’s The Backwash of War Maxwell Sater Historicity and the Invisible Eye in Luke Mogelson’s War Writing Cynthia Hogue Three Poems H.C. Palmer The Art of War: Late Night Thoughts After Watching Video Shots of Mariupol's Donetsk Theater Devon Balwit Three Poems Graham Barnhart Five Poems John Beall September 11, 2021 Kevin Bowen Four Poems David Stanford Burr Two Poems Olin Dodson Stump Laura Sweeney Cold War Bunker Bruce Weigl Seven Poems Jonathan Lighter Guy Ritchie's The Covenant Marc Napolitano Enacting Evil: An Analysis of Cinematic Representations of the Perpetrators of the “Final Solution” in Dramatizations of the Wannsee Conference POETRY PERSONAL ESSAY FICTION Robert Miner Home and Where the Heart Is PHOTO ESSAY BOOK REVIEWS Gary Mills FILM REVIEW William Trowbridge A Second Look Joshua Hamm Vernon’s Reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls Rebecca Layng Mustful’s Reclaiming Mni Sota: Alternate History of the U.S. – Dakota War SHORT STORY Robert Miner Home and Where the Heart Is Dale Ritterbusch Balaban's Passing through a Gate: Poems, Essays, and Translations Joe Walpole Balaban's Passing through a Gate: Poems, Essays, and Translations ARCHIVES / FOLIOS ABOUT

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Front Cover Back Cover A RCHIVES RETURN TO Ambrose Bierce on the Construction of Military History Michael W. Schaefer Mothers (short story) Jerome Mandel The Wars with the War in La Guerre, Yes Sir! Richard W. Lemp Reality (short story) Julio Escoto (tanslated by Clark M. Zlotchew) The Eyewitness Narrator in Hemingway's Collier's Dispatches and "Black Ass at the Cross Roads" James H. Meredith Miles Standish Forest, Plymouth, Mass, 1934 (poem) Joseph T. Cox Book Reviews Between the Lines: International Short Stories of War by Pauletta Otis and Steven H. Kaplan File under repair (sorry) Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's World War II Odyssey by Alvin Kernan Anthony Arthur All Quiet on the Western Front: Literary Analysis and Cultural Context by Richard A. Firda Steven Trout Suddenly A Mortal Splendor by Alexander Blackburn Tracy Santa