The Last Time I Dreamed About the War: Essays on the Life and Writing of W.D. Ehrhart
This is a collection of essays on the life and writing of W.D. Ehrhart, poet, essayist, memoirist and teacher. The twenty contributors—scholars, publishers, poets—are from the U.S., France, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, India and Japan. Some are Vietnam or Iraq war veterans. The collection overall studies various aspects of Ehrhart's writing, as well as his direct influence on the lives of people, both as a writer and as a teacher. The volume concludes with a selection of Ehrhart poems chosen by the contributors because they embody some quality discussed in the essays. The book includes a selected bibliography of Bill Ehrhart's published writings.

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The Last Time I Dreamed About the War: Essays on the Life and Writing of W.D. Ehrhart
This is a collection of essays on the life and writing of W.D. Ehrhart, poet, essayist, memoirist and teacher. The twenty contributors—scholars, publishers, poets—are from the U.S., France, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, India and Japan. Some are Vietnam or Iraq war veterans. The collection overall studies various aspects of Ehrhart's writing, as well as his direct influence on the lives of people, both as a writer and as a teacher. The volume concludes with a selection of Ehrhart poems chosen by the contributors because they embody some quality discussed in the essays. The book includes a selected bibliography of Bill Ehrhart's published writings.

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The Last Time I Dreamed About the War: Essays on the Life and Writing of W.D. Ehrhart

The Last Time I Dreamed About the War: Essays on the Life and Writing of W.D. Ehrhart

by Jean-Jacques Malo (Editor)
The Last Time I Dreamed About the War: Essays on the Life and Writing of W.D. Ehrhart
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The Last Time I Dreamed About the War: Essays on the Life and Writing of W.D. Ehrhart

by Jean-Jacques Malo (Editor)

Overview

This is a collection of essays on the life and writing of W.D. Ehrhart, poet, essayist, memoirist and teacher. The twenty contributors—scholars, publishers, poets—are from the U.S., France, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, India and Japan. Some are Vietnam or Iraq war veterans. The collection overall studies various aspects of Ehrhart's writing, as well as his direct influence on the lives of people, both as a writer and as a teacher. The volume concludes with a selection of Ehrhart poems chosen by the contributors because they embody some quality discussed in the essays. The book includes a selected bibliography of Bill Ehrhart's published writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786476992
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 04/15/2014
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Jean-Jacques Malo studied at the Université de Nantes, France and Birmingham University, England. He taught at the University of Wales in Cardiff, and the University of Washington in Seattle and has been teaching at the IUT de l’Université de Nantes since 2001. His research on Vietnam encompasses films as well as published translations of Vietnam War poetry into French.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One. The Prose Writer of Memoirs and Essays
“Making the Children Behave”—W.D. Ehrhart
Darkness Carried: W.D. Ehrhart’s Memoirs (Donald Anderson)
“The Chameleon War”: Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War (Subarno Chattarji)
W.D. Ehrhart, Essayist: Musings of a Librarian and Friend (David A. Willson)
Part Two. The Poet as an Artist
“The Farmer”—W.D. Ehrhart
Relieving the National Debt: W.D. Ehrhart and the Wages of Memory (Ammiel Alcalay)
“We are the ones you sent”: Moral Responsibility and War in the Poetry of W.D. Ehrhart (Adam Gilbert)
W.D. Ehrhart at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Diederik Oostdijk)
From Patriot to Poet to Peacenik (Nicole Gollner)
Poetry and the Art of Resistance: The Literature of W.D. Ehrhart, in Context (Dale Ritterbusch)
W.D. Ehrhart and Chimei Hamada: War Memories of a Poet and of a Print Artist (Yoko Shirai)
The Poetry of W.D. Ehrhart: A Bibliographic Essay (N. Bradley Christie)
The Art of Writing Poetry: An Interview with W.D. Ehrhart (Jean-Jacques Malo)
Part Three. The Influential Writer
“The Heart of the Poem”—W.D. Ehrhart
Ehrhart Effect (Jan Barry)
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Veteran’s Eye View of W.D. Ehrhart’s Vietnam War Poetry and Prose (Edward F. Palm)
Authentic Voices: Echoes of Bill Ehrhart and Me (Robert C. Doyle)
W.D. Ehrhart and Adastra Press: A Publisher’s Perspective (Gary Metras)
Part Four. The Educator Who Knows Things Worth Knowing
“The Teacher”—W.D. Ehrhart
Bill Ehrhart as Educator (Martin Novelli)
W.D. Ehrhart: ­Teacher-Poet (Charles L. Yates)
W.D. Ehrhart: Transformational Teacher (Joseph Cox)
“I have learned by now where such thoughts lead”: W.D. Ehrhart’s Poetry and Rethinking How We Study and Teach History (Matthew K. Irwin)
Making the Wreckage Beautiful (Clint Van Winkle)
Appendix A: Ehrhart’s Military History
Appendix B: Ehrhart Poems Selected by Contributors
An Ehrhart Bibliography
Selected Works About Ehrhart
About the Contributors
Index
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