Description
Fifty-five years in the writing, these are the collected poems of W.D. Ehrhart, one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature. Arranged chronologically, it allows readers to trace the development of a writer whose talents are bound together by the lingering physical, psychological, political and intellectual sensibilities the author first developed as a young enlisted Marine during the Vietnam War. And while many of the poems deal with the author's encounter with the Vietnam War and its endless consequences, the poems range widely in content from family and friends to nature and the environment to the blessings and absurdities of the human condition.
Author: W. D. Ehrhart
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 02/15/2019
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781476678535
ISBN10: 1476678537
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Memoirist, poet and editor and former Marine W.D. Ehrhart taught English and history at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania. The author of twenty books, his prose and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Utne Reader, Reader's Digest, American Poetry Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He was a major presence in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War.