The War in The War

As a descendant of a Vietnam Veteran, I am feeling the contemporary movement of how the War feels like it is still not over--from Ken Burns to editor Lauren McClung's Inheriting the War. As McClung says in her introduction, "When one inherits the residue of a parent's experience of war . . . one also inherits an abstraction. . . ." These prose poems are the best way for me to find my way through the abstraction.

"But whatever one witnessed in battle became a silence carried within. Soldiers are always dreaming themselves into the future as a way of getting beyond this, of moving forward. As a man, I sometimes think back to the fragments of Uncle Jesse's experience, and I realize that those closest are left merely to imagination as a means of understanding." 

Yusef Kommunyakaa from intro to Inheriting the War

 

 
The War in Packet - Feb 2020

The War in the Memoir, The War in LBJ, The War in Coming Out, The War in Men, and The War in Their Duties

WrathBearing Tree 2/21/2020: accepted 5/6 The War in Coming Out, The War in Men, and The War in their Duties

The Idaho Review 2/28

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The War -- packet of Five  - Feb 2020

The War in a Job at McDonald’s, The War in Reflection, The War in the Telling, The War in the Movie, and The War in The War

 

threepennyreview  2/28/2020 , rej 2/29
Bellevue LR 2/28/2020


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