The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems

by Franklin, H. Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780312115524
• ISBN10: 0312115520
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

The first college anthology of American literature about the Vietnam War brings together 16 stories, 5 songs, and 63 poems in an affordable text for literature and history courses.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction	1	(8)
STORIES	9	(192)
Inside the War	14	(56)
The Old Man	16	(2)
Michael Paul McCusker
Thi Bong Dzu	18	(7)
Larry Rottmann
The Interrogation of the Prisoner Bung by Mister Hawkins and Sergeant Tree	25	(9)
David Huddle
Ben	34	(7)
George Davis
Kafka for President	41	(23)
Tom Mayer
The Man I Killed	64	(6)
Tim O'Brien
Against the War	70	(46)
The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert	76	(20)
Ward Just
From Idle and Disorderly Persons	96	(11)
Mary Hazzard
Moratorium	107	(9)
Wayne Karlin
The Vietnam War and American Science Fiction	116	(30)
The Village	123	(10)
Kate Wilhelm
The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things	133	(13)
Karen Joy Fowler
Aftermaths	146	(55)
The Heavenly Blue Answer	148	(11)
Ronald Anthony Cross
Kid MacArthur	159	(19)
Stephanie Vaughn
The War at Home	178	(3)
Lewis Shiner
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain	181	(13)
Robert Olen Butler
The Last VC	194	(7)
Wayne Karlin
SONGS	201	(18)
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag	209	(2)
Country Joe McDonald
The Ballad of the Green Berets	211	(2)
Barry Sadler
Robin Moore
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Ohio	213	(2)
Neil Young
Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son	215	(2)
John Fogerty
Born in the U.S.A.	217	(2)
Bruce Springsteen
POEMS	219	(102)
A Porter on the Trail	223	(2)
Larry Rottmann
Peace with Honor	225	(3)
Philip Appleman
After Our War	228	(1)
John Balabn
Along the Mekong	229	(2)
In Celebration of Spring	231	(1)
News Update	232	(1)
For Mrs. Cam, Whose Name Means ``Printed Silk''	233	(1)
Mau Than	234	(3)
In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan	237	(1)
Jan Barry
Thap Ba	238	(2)
A Boom, A Billow	240	(2)
Lady Borton
Vietnam Dream	242	(1)
Ron Carter
OK Corral East/Brothers in the Nam	243	(1)
Horace Coleman
The Adrenaline Funkie and ``The Daily Emergency''	244	(3)
Gliding Baskets	247	(1)
Frank A. Cross, Jr.
Rice Will Grow Again	248	(2)
Guerrilla War	250	(1)
W. D. Ehrhart
Making the Children Behave	251	(1)
To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired	251	(1)
The Invasion of Grenada	252	(1)
For Mrs. Na	253	(1)
Guns	253	(2)
Camouflage	255	(2)
Joan A. Furey
The Best Act in Pleiku, No One Under 18 Admitted	257	(1)
Sharon Grant
And What Would You Do, Ma	258	(1)
Steve Hassett
Christmas	258	(2)
To My Siste, Ethel Ennis, Who Sang ``The Star-Spangled Banner'' at the Second Inauguration of Richard Milhous Nixon, Janunary 20, 1973	260	(3)
June Jordan
The Coffee Room Soldier	263	(1)
Penny Kettlewell
Prisoners	264	(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
The Dead at Quang Tri	266	(1)
From Staying Alive: Prologue: An Interim (i & ii)	267	(1)
Denise Levertov
The Pilots	268	(2)
Fragrance of Life, Odor of Death	270	(1)
A Poem at Christmas, 1972, during the Terror-Bombing of North Vietnam	270	(2)
From War Story	272	(2)
Gerald McCarthy
Finding the War Story	274	(1)
The Sound of Guns	275	(2)
In This Land	277	(2)
Marilyn M. McMahon
Wounds of War	279	(2)
July 20, 1969... an Introduction in 3 Voices	281	(2)
Dying with Grace	283	(2)
Confession	285	(2)
Knowing	287	(3)
Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe	290	(4)
Janice Mirikitani
Ceremony	294	(2)
Richard M. Mishler
Morning---A Death	296	(2)
Basil T. Paquet
Para la Madre de Angel Luna	298	(3)
Pedro Pietri
Bury the Bady, Bury the Thought	301	(1)
Stan Platke
Search and Destroy	302	(1)
Dale Ritterbusch
At the Crash Site of a B-52: Jaunary 1994	303	(2)
APO 96225	305	(1)
Larry Rottmann
For Cissy Shellabarger, R.N., Wherever You Are	306	(1)
What Kind of War?	306	(1)
Thanks, Guys	307	(1)
The Bones of an American M.I.A Speak to the Members of the Joint Causalty Resolution Team	308	(2)
Death in Vietnam	310	(1)
Luis Omar Salinas
TV Wars---First Blood Part II	311	(1)
Lynda Van Devanter
For Molly	311	(2)
Surrounding Blues on the Way Down	313	(1)
Bruce Weigl
Burning Shit at An Khe	314	(2)
Him, on the Bicycle	316	(1)
Song of Napalm	317	(1)
Snowy Egret	318	(1)
Dialectical Materialism	319	(2)
Glossary	321	(3)
Bibliographies and Secondary Sources on Vietnam War Literature	324	(4)
Chronology	328