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Learning war : selected Vietnam War poems / R.L. Barth.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.A7545 L43 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barth, R. L. (Robert L.), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Poetry.
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- War poetry, American.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 61 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfort, KY : Broadstone Books, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Deeply Dug In
- "Go Tell The Spartans..."
- Battlefield Prayer
- Saigon: 16 VI. 1963
- War Debt
- Allegory For L. B. J.
- Under Fire
- Initial Confusion
- Indoctrination
- Bush Discipline
- A Child Accidentally Napalmed
- Terminology
- One Way To Carry The Dead
- An Old Story
- War Story; Or, How Hard Was It?
- XIN Loi
- Movie Stars
- For Unused Graves
- Saigon: 30 IV. 1975
- Epitaph
- Up Against The Wall
- Epilogue
- II. Looking For Peace
- Letter From A Staging Area
- A Letter To The Dead
- A Letter From An Observation Post: Near An Hoa
- Nightpiece
- The Insert
- The Patrol
- Swift, Silent, Deadly
- A Letter To My Infant Son
- A Letter From The Bush
- Outpost Overrun
- A Letter From An Hoc (4), By A Seedbed
- Letter From A Ward
- Chaplain To Bishop
- Pows
- Da Nang Nights
- Running In Vietnam
- Office Of The Dead
- Sniper
- First Watch
- Short-Timer: Six And A Wakeup
- Souvenirs
- Elegy For A Dead Friend
- "The Lighter That Never Fails"
- Last Letter
- Meditations After Battle
- Fieldcraft
- A Letter From The World
- III. Small Arms Fire
- "Why Not Adjust? Forget This? Let It Be?"
- De Bello I
- "Patrolling Silently"
- Definition
- Sop
- Social Darwinism
- For Part Of A Generation
- "Don't You Know Your Poems Are Hurtful?"
- Grunt Fantasy
- Epitaph For The Fallen At Camerone
- Foxhole Theology
- Martial 8.58
- Reading The Op-Ed Page
- Incoming!
- As Good As It Gets
- "Tonight You Bitch"
- After The War
- Lessons Of War
- "Kentucky's Money Bonus"
- Ambush
- M.I.A.S
- A Little Elegy For Jimmy Stewart
- Snapshot, Rvn
- "I Swore I'D Only Be "
- Epitaph For A Patrol Leader
- IV. Coda
- Republic Of Vietnam Campaign Medal With Device.
- Notes:
- Vietnam War poems drawn from other collections by the author.
- ISBN:
- 9781937968762
- 1937968766
- OCLC:
- 1232108138
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