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The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs and Poems
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.
- GenresShort StoriesPoetry
343 pages, Paperback
First published August 15, 1995
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June 24, 2011
There's a poem (but the book is currently in storage so I can't look it up) by a nurse who was over in Vietnam. The other nurses who worked with her had children born with severe disabilities because they worked with soldiers who had been out in the field and exposed to chemicals. After witnessing how this second hand exposure tainted her co-workers families, she wouldn't risk having a child.
December 7, 2010
We read this book in my graduate class on the sixties. Besides its brutal, bone-crushing beauty and pain, this book gave to me my new love of John Balaban, particularly because of the poem "Mau Than."
September 3, 2008
This book is a nice addition to any Vietnam War collection.
January 11, 2009
This is an amazing resource. People bare their souls and open up a period of time to everyone who is curious about it.
April 18, 2017
I found my copy in a discard bin. My local public library discards books which have not been checked out in four years. That this anthology has left my public library feels like a crime against history.
This wonderful anthology: moving, provocative, haunting. It is well organized, and evenly balanced between pro and anti war perspectives. The extensively detailed chronology provides the essential information regarding the history of Vietnam. I feel that I have been introduced with the concurrent history of the Vietnam War. A difficult history, which has been overshadowed by more promine. The suffering of Vietnam through its colonial history, through WWII and then the internal struggles that followed.
I feel this book should be mandatory curriculum for all junior and senior American high school students.
This wonderful anthology: moving, provocative, haunting. It is well organized, and evenly balanced between pro and anti war perspectives. The extensively detailed chronology provides the essential information regarding the history of Vietnam. I feel that I have been introduced with the concurrent history of the Vietnam War. A difficult history, which has been overshadowed by more promine. The suffering of Vietnam through its colonial history, through WWII and then the internal struggles that followed.
I feel this book should be mandatory curriculum for all junior and senior American high school students.
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