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Dead on a High Hill: Essays on War, Literature and Living, 2002-2011
Author(s): W.D. Ehrhart (Author)
- Publisher: McFarland & Co
- Publication Date: 15 Jun. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 204 pages
- ISBN-10: 0786470399
- ISBN-13: 9780786470396
Book Description
A new collection of Bill Ehrhart’s essays–25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War failures of American policy-makers to life in 21st century Vietnam; the trenches of the Western Front, the mountains of Korea, the sands of Iraq; from the value of one’s name to the cowardice of Congress; mountain gorillas in Rwanda, the journalist Gloria Emerson, teaching poetry to teenagers; on the famous (Wilfred Owen) and the obscure (Robert James Elliott)…. These essays explore the fallacies of history, the madness of war, the craft of poetry, the profession of teaching, and the art of living.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“this book contains many such small treasures, big ones too”―Veterans for Peace Newsletter; “As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature”―John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University; “one of the great poets and writers of nonfiction produced by the Vietnam War”―The Nation.
About the Author
Memoirist, poet, editor, and Marine veteran W.D. Ehrhart taught English and history at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania. The author of twenty books, his prose and poetry have appeared in hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Utne Reader, Reader’s Digest, American Poetry Review and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He was a major presence in the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War.
