Carrying the darkness: the poetry of the Vietnam War
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Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, 1989.
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xxxi, 288 pages ; 21 cm
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811.5408 C319 1989
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I believe Carrying the Darkness is the best anthology of poetry to come out of the Vietnam War. The poets in this collection have given their experiences in Vietnam a vital reality that transcends time and grabs your heart. The bitter pain of war and war's aftermath in Carrying the Darkness is so palpable and persuasive that it's almost unbearable. When you read Carrying the Darkness, you read about war as it really is -- and you will never be the same.
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9780896721883, 0896721884, 9780896721876, 0896721876
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Reprint. Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Avon Books, c1985.
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I believe Carrying the Darkness is the best anthology of poetry to come out of the Vietnam War. The poets in this collection have given their experiences in Vietnam a vital reality that transcends time and grabs your heart. The bitter pain of war and war's aftermath in Carrying the Darkness is so palpable and persuasive that it's almost unbearable. When you read Carrying the Darkness, you read about war as it really is -- and you will never be the same.
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Ehrhart, W. D. 1. (1989). Carrying the darkness: the poetry of the Vietnam War. Lubbock, Tex., Texas Tech University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ehrhart, W. D. 1948-. 1989. Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War. Lubbock, Tex., Texas Tech University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ehrhart, W. D. 1948-, Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War. Lubbock, Tex., Texas Tech University Press, 1989.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ehrhart, W. D. 1948-. Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War. Lubbock, Tex., Texas Tech University Press, 1989.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword to the 1989 Reprint -- Foreword -- Glossary of Unfamiliar Terms -- Michael Anania/ A Second-Hand Elegy -- Philip Appleman/ Peace with Honor -- Waiting for the Fire -- John Balaban/ The Guard at the Binh Thuy Bridge -- Along the Mekong -- Mau Than -- Graveyard at Bald Eagle Ridge -- Opening Le Ba Khon's Dictionary -- The Dragonfish -- For Miss Tin in Hue -- After Our War -- For Mrs. Cam, Whose Name Means "Printed Silk" -- April 30, 1975 -- Dead for Two Years, Erhart Arranges to Meet Me in a Dream -- In Celebration of Spring -- News Update -- Thoughts Before Dawn -- Story -- Jan Barry/ In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan -- Nights in Nha Trang -- A Nun in Ninh Hoa -- Floating Petals --Green Hell, Green Death -- Harvest Moon -- Lessons -- R. L. Barth/ The Insert -- Letter from An Hoc (4), by a Seedbed -- P.O.W.s -- Postscript -- Stephen Berg/ May 1970 -- D. C. Berry/ The sun goes -- They say Spring came -- The perfume on the Oriental -- If I'm zapped, bury me -- Sgt. Sam Sublime never died -- Robert Bly/ Counting Small-Boned Bodies -- At a March Against the Vietnam War -- Section VI of "The Teeth Mother Naked at Last" -- Igor Bobrowsky/ The Journey -- Free Fire Zone -- D. F. Brown/ Coming Home -- Patrols -- Returning Fire -- When I Am 19 I Was a Medic -- Illumination -- I Was Dancing Alone in Binh Province -- Eating the Forest -- Still Later There Are War Stories -- First Person- 1981 -- Steven Ford Brown/ After the Vietnam War -- Thomas Brush/ Waiting for the End of the War -- Again -- Christopher Bursk/ Lies -- Marylin Butler/ Listen -- Joseph Cady/ Starting 1973: What to Do Now that Peace Has Been Announced -- Hayden Carruth/ On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam -- Ron Carter/ Vietnam Dream -- Ray Catina/ Negotiations -- Philosophy -- Horace Coleman/ OK Corral East/ Brothers in the Nam -- Night Flare Drop, Tan Son Nhut -- Rememberance of Things Past -- In Ca Mau -- A Black Soldier Remembers -- A Downed Black Pilot Learns How to Fly -- Frank A. Cross, Jr./ Gliding Baskets -- The Fifty Gunner -- Rice Will Grow Again -- When Chicken Man Came Home to Roost -- An Accident -- Robert Dana/ At the Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, D. C. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Steve Denning/ Kim-San -- Night on the Kho Bha Dinh -- The Movie -- Fire Support Burk -- This Time -- W.D. Erhart/ Farmer Nguyen -- The One That Died -- Night Patrol -- Guerrilla War -- Time on Target -- Hunting -- A Relative Thing -- Making the Children Behave -- To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired -- Letter -- A Confirmation -- The Invasion of Grenada -- The Blizzard of Sixty-Six -- '. . . the light that cannot fade . . .' -- Charles Fishman/ Death March -- Bryan Alec Floyd/ Private Ian Godwin, U.S.M.C. -- Sergeant Brandon Just, U.S.M.C. -- Corporal Charles Chungtu, U.S.M.C. -- Lance Corporal Purdue Grace, U.S.M.C. -- Private Jack Smith, U.S.M.C. -- Captain James Leson, U.S.M.C. -- Corporal Kevin Spina, U.S.M.C. -- Private First Class Brooks Morganstein, U.S.M.C. -- David Hall/ Disgrace -- Excerpts from "The Ambush of the Fourth Platoon" -- Gustav Hasford/ Bedtime Story -- Steve Hassett/ Mother's Day -- Armed Forces Day -- Thanksgiving -- Christmas -- Patriot's Day -- And what would you do, ma -- Samuel Hazo/ Battle News -- George Hitchcock/ Scattering Flowers -- Daniel Hoffman/ A Special Train -- Peter Hollenbeck/ Anorexia -- John F. Howe/ The Land -- Christopher Howell/ A Reminder to the Current President -- Memories of Mess Duty and the War -- Liberty & Ten Years of Return -- David Huddle/ Nerves -- Theory -- Bac Ha -- Words -- Cousin -- Vermont -- Allston James/ Honor -- Yusef Komunyakaa/ Somewhere Near Phu Bai -- Starlight Scope Myopia -- A Break from the Bush --Tiger Lady -- The Dead at Quang Tri -- After the Fall of Saigon -- Boat People -- Herbert Krohn/ Can Tho -- Farmer's Song at Can Tho -- Ferryman's Song at Binh Minh -- My Flute -- Lucy Lakides/ Armed Forces -- James Laughlin/ The Kind- -- McAvoy Layne/ On the Yellow Footprints -- The Mob -- Gettin' Straight -- Guns -- On Hats & Things -- Beautiful Ladies -- Intersection in the Sky -- Collect Call -- Denise Levertov/ Excerpt from "Staying Alive" -- Lou Lipsitz/ The Feeding -- Dick Lourie/ For All My Brothers and Sisters -- Paul Martin/ Watching the News -- Gerald McCarthy/ Excerpts from "War Story" -- Arrival -- Finding the Way Back -- The Sound of Guns -- The Fall of Da Nang -- The Hooded Legion -- Walter McDonald/ The Winter Before the War -- For Kelly, Missing in Action -- Faraway Places -- War Games -- Caliban in Blue -- Interview with a Guy Named Fawkes, U.S. Army -- Rocket Attack -- For Harper, Killed in Action -- Veteran -- The Retired Pilot to Himself -- Once You've Been to War -- Hauling Over Wolf Creek Pass in Winter -- Thomas McGrath/ Reading the Names of the Vietnam War Dead -- Go Ask the Dead -- Richard M. Mishler/ Ceremony -- Larry Moffi/ Putting an End to War Stories -- James Moore/ One Reason I Went to Prison -- David Mura/ The Natives -- Huy Nguyen: Brothers, Drowning Cries -- Perry Oldham/ War Stories -- Joel Oppenheimer/ Poem in Defense of Children -- Simon J. Ortiz/ War Poem -- Mark Osaki/ Amnesiac -- Basil T. Paquet/ They Do Not Go Gentle -- In a Plantation -- Night Dust-off -- Basket Case -- Morning- A Death -- Easter '68 -- It Is Monsoon at Last -- Graves Registration -- Mourning the Death, by Hemorrhage, of a Child from Honai -- Group Shot -- Anthony Petrosky/ V. A. Hospital -- John Clark Pratt/ Words and Thoughts -- Don Receveur/ Night Fear -- August 17, 1970 -- Doper's Dream -- Eagle in the Land of Oz -- Dale Ritterbusch/ Search and Destroy -- Larry Rottmann/ APO 96225 -- Vern Rutsala/ The Silence -- John C. Schafer/ Battle Lines -- Richard Shelton/ Eden After Dark -- Joseph A. Soldati/ Surroundings -- William Stafford/ Report from an Unappointed Committee -- Michael Stephens/ After Asia -- The Carp -- Frank Stewart/ Black Winter -- Bill Tremblay/ May Day -- Home Front -- Tom Wayman/ Despair -- Teething -- Ron Weber/ A Concise History of the Vietnam War: 1965-1968 -- Bruce Weigl/ Sailing to Bien Hoa -- Surrounding Blues on the Way Down -- Girl at the Chu Lai Laundry -- Mines -- Temple Near Quang Tri, Not on the Map -- The Sharing -- The Ambassador -- Burning Shit at An Khe -- Song for the Lost Private -- Him, on the Bicycle -- Anna Grasa -- Monkey -- Mercy -- Song of Napalm -- Amnesia -- Deborah Woodard/ Tower -- Ray A. Young Bear/ Wadasa Nakamoon, Vietnam Memorial -- Notes on Contributors. | |
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