Writing Between the Lines

by Bowen, Kevin; Weigl, Bruce; Levertov, Denise

• ISBN13: 9781558490543
• ISBN10: 155849054X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

"This terrific collection is a powerful antidote to the rewritten and re-imaged vision of the Vietnam War in American culture of the 1990s....An exceptionally valuable book with ample potential as a classroom text". -- H. Bruce Franklin

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction: Completing the Circle	p. xvii
In Country	p. 1
How to Tell a True War Story	p. 4
The Ivory Comb	p. 16
From Ugly Deadly Music	p. 25
Fragile as a Sun Ray	p. 35
Armed Forces Recruitment Day Albuquerque High School, 1962	p. 39
First Day, Headquarters Co., 101st Airborne Phan Rang, Viet Nam	p. 40
First Encounter	p. 41
Hearing the Argument of the Little Prisoners	p. 42
Disasters of War	p. 43
The Sound of Night	p. 46
From Fire and Rain	p. 51
From a Time Far Past	p. 60
Song of the Hammock(bai Ca Canh Vong)	p. 66
Song of the Moonlight and the Dan Bo(tieng Dan Bau Va Dem Trang)	p. 68
Driver of Lorries Without Windscreens	p. 70
Truong Son East, Truong Son West	p. 71
Tipping Point	p. 72
Connections: Vermont Vietnam (i)	p. 74
Connections: Vermont Vietnam (ii)	p. 75
Aftermath	p. 77
Shell Shock	p. 80
Words for My Daughter	p. 87
For the Missing in Action	p. 90
White Circle	p. 91
In the Labor Market at Giang Vo	p. 92
Sitting with the Buddhist Monks in Hue, 1967	p. 93
Waiting	p. 95
In Phan Thiet	p. 97
Making the Children Behave	p. 99
A Walk in the Garden of Heaven	p. 100
Manuel is Quiet Sometimes	p. 107
Memorial. Day at the Viet Coffee House	p. 109
From Novel in Progress: Over There is the Horizon	p. 110
Knowing	p. 114
Wounds of War	p. 117
Beggars of the Past	p. 121
From Lost Armies	p. 125
Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong	p. 134
The Slope of Life	p. 135
Do Len	p. 143
Moonlight	p. 144
From Chickenhawk: Back in the World	p. 145
An Old Story	p. 152
Returning the Missing	p. 166
Parts	p. 167
Survivors	p. 168
The Examples	p. 171
Outside the Blue Nile	p. 172
Facing It	p. 175
Across Borders	p. 177
Surreptitious Encounter with Joaquin Pasos	p. 180
Urgent Message to My Mother	p. 182
From Testimony: Death of a Guatamalan Village	p. 183
Matters of the Heart	p. 187
Responsibility	p. 189
From Mother Tongue	p. 191
The Extremely Funny Gun Salesman	p. 197
Miami Beach Farmer	p. 199
One Night in January	p. 201
From the Angel of History	p. 205
The Garden Shukkei-En	p. 207
Gisela Brüning	p. 209
Malebolge	p. 216
We'Re Substance Now and Time	p. 219
From Scene from the Movie Giant	p. 220
The Other Alamo	p. 222
Them	p. 224
Rain	p. 225
The Border	p. 226
What Makes Us Think We Are Only Here	p. 227
In San Salvador (i)	p. 230
Going Back	p. 231
Fever Dream in Ha Noi	p. 241
A Reed Boat	p. 244
The Hanoi Market	p. 245
Nui Ba Den: Black Virgin Mountain	p. 246
The Arts of Love and Hydrology As Practiced in Hanoi	p. 248
River Music	p. 250
The Snail Gatherers of Co Loa Thanh	p. 251
That Country	p. 252
The House on Lotus Pond	p. 253
Mountains and Rivers: Works from Viet Nam	p. 261
Hope	p. 266
Despair	p. 267
My Thoughts	p. 268
Folk Poetry: Ca Dao	p. 269
Tavern by a Mountain Stream	p. 271
The Lieu Quan School of Vietnamese Buddhism	p. 272
Nonattachment	p. 279
Parting	p. 280
White Circles Revisited	p. 281
The Path	p. 283
Motion	p. 284
The Inn of Snake Alcohol	p. 285
Time	p. 286
On the Highway	p. 287
New Students, Old Teacher	p. 288
Those Days of Happiness	p. 289
The Alabaster Stork	p. 296
Quang Tri	p. 297
New Year Fireworks	p. 298
Red Earth, Blue Water	p. 299
A Small Song of Peace	p. 300
Contributors	p. 303
Credits and Permissions	p. 310
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