Kamis, 14 September 2017

September’s Book Review Round-up

W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation: Vietnam, America and the Written Word, edited by Jean-Jacques Malo, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017 Revered by scholars and the public alike, W.D. Ehrhart, known as “the poet of the Vietnam War,” eloquently and cuttingly writes about the American experience in Vietnam. A Purple Heart recipient, his “poetry of witness” …

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