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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 07:59:28 -0800
From: Randy Fertel <randy@fertel.com>
To: sixties@lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: VIETNAM WAR POET TO READ AT TULANE Feb 12
POET W.D. EHRHART TO READ FROM WORK; TALK ON
"THE VIETNAM WAR AND A WHOLE LOT MORE"
W.D. Ehrhart, a Marine Corps veteran, poet and anthologist of the Vietnam
War, will read from his work and discuss his experiences in "The Vietnam War
and a Whole Lot More" on Monday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Rogers Chapel on
the Newcomb Campus at Tulane University.
His talk is open and free to the public.
Ehrhart has published over a dozen books of poetry and prose and has also
edited several anthologies. His newest collection is "Beautiful Wreckage:
New and Selected Poems" (1999), which includes 24 new poems and previously
unpublished early poems, as well as his work from 30 years and 12 other
collections.
He is also author of "Ordinary Lives: Platoon 1005 and the Vietnam War"
(1999, Temple University Press), a story which tracks the men who trained
together in 1966 on Parris Island, South Carolina through the subsequent 30
years. His findings about these men and, as he puts it, "their decency and
loyalty and hard work and perseverance in the face of hardships and hurdles"
are an extraordinary window into the complexities of the Vietnam Generation
and the United States then and now.
Ehrhart ^s Vietnam War trilogy "Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran
Against the War," "Vietnam Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir" and "Busted: A
Vietnam Veteran in Nixons America" has been called "possibly the greatest
and most valuable of all Vietnam War autobiographies."
He edited "Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War" and
ventured into stories and poems of the Korean War as an editor of
"Retrieving Bones" (1999).
For more information about Ehrharts appearance, call Randy Fertel at
504-862-0707 or visit www.fertel.com.
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"Ehrhart is one of the foremost figures in the literature of the Vietnam
War. He ranks among the three or four most distinguished American poets to
emerge from the war, he is surely the preeminent anthologist of Vietnam War
poetry, and his series of autobiographical memoirs is unsurpassed among
veterans' prose writings in their combination of personal experience and
historical understanding."
--H. Bruce Franklin, The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and
Poems
"Bill Ehrhart is a wonderful poet, a force of nature, a conscience that
won't let us off the hook."
--Philip Appleman
"A hunger for honesty and a charged lyricism have always made Bill Ehrhart's
poetry remarkably his own."
--John Balaban
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