| Description |
612 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Tell the Truth and So Make Peace / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Finding My Heart / Louise Amlong -- Gallipoli Beach / Yigal Ben Haim -- Sound Shy / Shepherd Bliss -- From the Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing / Carroll Parrott Blue -- For Soldiers Not Known / Bonnie Bonner -- The Night the War Begins in Iraq, We're Learning CPR / Nancy Sue Brink -- Voyages of the SS Joshua Hendy / Joe Brotherton -- Dear Commander in Chief / Sean Mclain Brown -- Voluntary Disarmament in Iraq / Jim Castellanos -- Liberation Day / Tom Currie -- The Mcguffin / Denis Dass -- Good Time / Dennis Drury -- A Walk in the Garden of Heaven & Spring Dawn / George Evans -- The 2 to 7 Watch / Dan Fahey -- How Can a Human Being Learn to Love a People Then Kill Them? / Jim Fauss -- Drown Bread & Cool Dad & Charlie Don't Surf / Dennis Fritzinger -- Haiku / Gary Gach -- The Body Escort / Robert Golling -- Two Husband in Vietnam / Ron Greenberg -- Dream Catcher & The Wall / Sara Haines -- Body Trap & Light Casualities / Donald L. Handley -- War in the House / Edie Heinemann -- The Geese / Larry Heinemann -- Remanded to the Nam / Martin Higgins -- From the Women on the Island / Ho Anh Thai -- Field of Heads / Hanh Hoang -- Firing Blanks at Moving Targets / Doug Howerton -- The Prayer of Saint Francis / John Patrick Ignatius -- A Child of God & Bird Grieves for the Man they Killed / Elijah Imlay -- My Father's Photograph & Stealing Fish / Chanpidor Janko -- Magenta Alert / Phil Johnson -- A Rosary & On Point & Platoon Sgt. Francisco Royas & We Need / Robert Jost -- The American Reader / Wayne Karlin -- Esh / Miki Kashtan -- The Silent Scream & Holiday Madness / Sharon Kufeldt -- Reuniting Gondwanaland & Perdition & Little Fool & The Measure of the Man & One Small Exception / Joe Lamb -- The True Geography of Meeting & In the Silence / Robert Landman -- The "New Vietnam" / William Larsen -- Shattered Dream / Pauline Laurent -- Fragile as a Sunray / Le Minh Khue -- Gatesville / Michael Litle -- A Place Called Home / Morgan Jane Lott -- C.O. & Elephants Walking & Hue, in Darkness & Occasional Verses at Con Son, after the War / Fred Marchant -- Hopper's Last BBQ / Roman A. "Hopper" Martinez -- The Hunt / Keith Mather -- Hope & the Thing with Feathers *+& Weaving Peace & Recipes for Independence Day, Labor Day, Harvest, Interdependence Day / Phyllis Meshulam -- Regulations & Slightly Damaged Buddhas & 20% Off & From Strength to Strength / Clare Morris -- Shipping Away & Litters from Lindsey to her Dad on Active Duty Somewhere in the Middle East / Don Edward Morris -- Draft Night / Scott Morrison -- August 10, 2005 & Sitting in my Yard by the Salt Marsh Yesterday Untangling String & PFC Porter Cleveland Bumpus USMC / B. Cole Morton -- Dragon River & My First PBR Patrol & The VC Palm Tree & The Zen Junk - Soirap River Day Patrol & The Floater - Soivap River Night Patrol / Charlie Sherdyl Motz -- From Shopping Cart Soldiers / John Muligan -- Sister Ambrose, the Flying Nun / Maureen E. Nerli -- Grief & War & Peace & Words & Love & April & Language / Nguyen Qui Duc -- Butterfly / Paul Ocampo -- Connections: Vermont Vietnam & The Sad Story about the Six Boys about to Be Drafted in Brooklyn / Grace Paley -- Meditation on Being a Baby Killer & The Art of Window Washing / Michael Parmeley -- Fragments of Bacon / Tom Patchell -- The Ride / Redline -- Close Call / Monica Rosenthal -- I Look at Him and Smile, He Looks at Me with Concern & Dear George / Gregory Ross -- SKewed & Sea Salt & Mrs. Martinez & War's Confession / Sandy Scull -- The Well by the Trail to My An & Poem for Tet & Two Squads & Inside the Wire & Fort Benning Return: 2000 & Progress Report / Ted Sexauer -- And Her Chicks & February on the Jordan Rift & Flowers / Michael Shuval -- Last Time / Barbara Sonneborn -- Death's Journeyman / Richard Sterling -- Meetnig with the Goddess: True Story of the Vitenamese Annie Oakley / Richard L. Stevens -- Composting America & Salt / Lee Swenson -- The Chicopee Flash / John Swensson -- A Soldier's Prayer / Claude AnShin Thomas -- Marble Mountain / Daniel Moen Thompson -- From to Touch: A Vietnam War Medic's Diary / Gary Thompson -- Saigon Passional / Buzz Tiffany -- War Dream i & War Dream ii / Julie Thi Underhill -- Nothing to Crow About / Christopher Upham -- Honor's Death & To Take a Street / Michael L. Wong -- Sanctuary & Walking across a Burnt Field & I Feel a Puff Ashes up My Jeans / Paul Woodruff -- The petition & Lullaby / Chun, Yu -- Christmas at Grandma's & Last Call on the Farm / Doug Zachary |
| Summary |
Autobiographical accounts and fictional writing by veterans and other trauma victims, including survivors of gang violence, domestic violence, and drug abuse. |
| Subject |
Survival.
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Survival. |
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Survival -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Veterans -- Biography.
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Veterans. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Veterans -- Fiction.
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Victims -- Biography.
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Victims. |
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Victims -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
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| ISBN |
0977333833 : $20.00 |
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9780977333837 |
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