Writing Between the Lines
by Bowen, Kevin; Weigl, Bruce; Levertov, DeniseFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-02-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Summary
"This terrific collection is a powerful antidote to the rewritten and re-imaged vision of the Vietnam War in American culture of the 1990s....An exceptionally valuable book with ample potential as a classroom text". -- H. Bruce Franklin
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Introduction: Completing the Circle | p. xvii |
| In Country | p. 1 |
| How to Tell a True War Story | p. 4 |
| The Ivory Comb | p. 16 |
| From Ugly Deadly Music | p. 25 |
| Fragile as a Sun Ray | p. 35 |
| Armed Forces Recruitment Day Albuquerque High School, 1962 | p. 39 |
| First Day, Headquarters Co., 101st Airborne Phan Rang, Viet Nam | p. 40 |
| First Encounter | p. 41 |
| Hearing the Argument of the Little Prisoners | p. 42 |
| Disasters of War | p. 43 |
| The Sound of Night | p. 46 |
| From Fire and Rain | p. 51 |
| From a Time Far Past | p. 60 |
| Song of the Hammock(bai Ca Canh Vong) | p. 66 |
| Song of the Moonlight and the Dan Bo(tieng Dan Bau Va Dem Trang) | p. 68 |
| Driver of Lorries Without Windscreens | p. 70 |
| Truong Son East, Truong Son West | p. 71 |
| Tipping Point | p. 72 |
| Connections: Vermont Vietnam (i) | p. 74 |
| Connections: Vermont Vietnam (ii) | p. 75 |
| Aftermath | p. 77 |
| Shell Shock | p. 80 |
| Words for My Daughter | p. 87 |
| For the Missing in Action | p. 90 |
| White Circle | p. 91 |
| In the Labor Market at Giang Vo | p. 92 |
| Sitting with the Buddhist Monks in Hue, 1967 | p. 93 |
| Waiting | p. 95 |
| In Phan Thiet | p. 97 |
| Making the Children Behave | p. 99 |
| A Walk in the Garden of Heaven | p. 100 |
| Manuel is Quiet Sometimes | p. 107 |
| Memorial. Day at the Viet Coffee House | p. 109 |
| From Novel in Progress: Over There is the Horizon | p. 110 |
| Knowing | p. 114 |
| Wounds of War | p. 117 |
| Beggars of the Past | p. 121 |
| From Lost Armies | p. 125 |
| Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong | p. 134 |
| The Slope of Life | p. 135 |
| Do Len | p. 143 |
| Moonlight | p. 144 |
| From Chickenhawk: Back in the World | p. 145 |
| An Old Story | p. 152 |
| Returning the Missing | p. 166 |
| Parts | p. 167 |
| Survivors | p. 168 |
| The Examples | p. 171 |
| Outside the Blue Nile | p. 172 |
| Facing It | p. 175 |
| Across Borders | p. 177 |
| Surreptitious Encounter with Joaquin Pasos | p. 180 |
| Urgent Message to My Mother | p. 182 |
| From Testimony: Death of a Guatamalan Village | p. 183 |
| Matters of the Heart | p. 187 |
| Responsibility | p. 189 |
| From Mother Tongue | p. 191 |
| The Extremely Funny Gun Salesman | p. 197 |
| Miami Beach Farmer | p. 199 |
| One Night in January | p. 201 |
| From the Angel of History | p. 205 |
| The Garden Shukkei-En | p. 207 |
| Gisela Brüning | p. 209 |
| Malebolge | p. 216 |
| We'Re Substance Now and Time | p. 219 |
| From Scene from the Movie Giant | p. 220 |
| The Other Alamo | p. 222 |
| Them | p. 224 |
| Rain | p. 225 |
| The Border | p. 226 |
| What Makes Us Think We Are Only Here | p. 227 |
| In San Salvador (i) | p. 230 |
| Going Back | p. 231 |
| Fever Dream in Ha Noi | p. 241 |
| A Reed Boat | p. 244 |
| The Hanoi Market | p. 245 |
| Nui Ba Den: Black Virgin Mountain | p. 246 |
| The Arts of Love and Hydrology As Practiced in Hanoi | p. 248 |
| River Music | p. 250 |
| The Snail Gatherers of Co Loa Thanh | p. 251 |
| That Country | p. 252 |
| The House on Lotus Pond | p. 253 |
| Mountains and Rivers: Works from Viet Nam | p. 261 |
| Hope | p. 266 |
| Despair | p. 267 |
| My Thoughts | p. 268 |
| Folk Poetry: Ca Dao | p. 269 |
| Tavern by a Mountain Stream | p. 271 |
| The Lieu Quan School of Vietnamese Buddhism | p. 272 |
| Nonattachment | p. 279 |
| Parting | p. 280 |
| White Circles Revisited | p. 281 |
| The Path | p. 283 |
| Motion | p. 284 |
| The Inn of Snake Alcohol | p. 285 |
| Time | p. 286 |
| On the Highway | p. 287 |
| New Students, Old Teacher | p. 288 |
| Those Days of Happiness | p. 289 |
| The Alabaster Stork | p. 296 |
| Quang Tri | p. 297 |
| New Year Fireworks | p. 298 |
| Red Earth, Blue Water | p. 299 |
| A Small Song of Peace | p. 300 |
| Contributors | p. 303 |
| Credits and Permissions | p. 310 |
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