Wounds of War: Poets for Peace
Contributors: Diana L. May (Co-editor); Mitchell Waldman (Co-editor)
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Published: January 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781424111770
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; General; Poetry
Description: "Wounds of War: Poets for Peace"  brings together, in poems, stories and essays, the voices of those personally affected by war. Included are voices of parents, of children, of friends, of soldiers and others who have a large stake in the wars, present and past, that our country has participated in. We hear the patriotic voices, the voices of dissent and rage, the voices of sorrow, pain, fear and tears, the voices of pride and love. All these voices are gathered together to hopefully make the experience of war something more than another headline in the morning’s paper.
Notes: Contents 

Introduction 	9 
Why Dear God, Why? 	11 
Poems 	
Merry-go-round 	13 
Henry Burt Stevens 	
The Last Word 	14 
Sally Steinmiller 	
Imperatives 	15 
Paul Mallory 	
Freedom’s Banquet 	16 
Jim Dunlap 	
Where is This Poem Going?—For Scott Eichin 	17 
KC Francis 	
War on Truth 	19 
Sandy Knauer 	
Sport of Kings 	21 
Frank Robinette 	
A Rattlesnake in the Basement 	23 
Sandy Knauer 	
Headline—“Bush Won’t Stop Terroristic Hunt” 	25 
Sal Parlato, Jr. 	
Where’s the Season? 	26 
Tholona Ashok Chakravarthy 	
The War Has Begun 	27 
Molly Malloy Wiest Logothetis 	
Who 	29 
Anita Fernandez 	
Do You Have A Son? 	30 

Janeen Robichaud 
When You’re Gone 	32 
Samantha Robichaud 	
Springtime in Iraq 	33 
KC Francis 	
Drums Will Roll 	34 
Sue Hess 	
Where Blow the Winds of War 	35 
Jim Dunlap 	
Essays 	
Bones in the Sand 	37 
Dave Faust 	
The Colon 	38 
William Heyen 	
War, Then and Now 	41 
Annette Merkur Schwartz 	
Thoughts From Along the Peace Trail 	44 
Brandon Wilson 	
The Battles and the Warriors 	49 
Poems 	
Nineteen 	51 
Mitchell Waldman 	
Cecil Broome 	53 
Henry Burt Stevens 	
Air & Space Museum Gift Shop 	56 
Eric Evans 	
The Service of Deflection 	58 
Eric Evans 	

Welcome Home, Soldier 	59 
(The Words I’ve Never Heard) 	
Frank Tymon 	
A Song of a Wounded Soldier 	61 
Alexander Shaumyan 	
Their Spirits Weep 	63 
Cheryl Gruener 	
Guilt-Edged Game 	64 
Sal Parlato, Jr. 	
Barbaric Splendor 	66 
Sal Parlato, Jr. 	
Essays and Stories 	
The String 	68 
Larry D. Stevanus 	
The Mother’s Day Card 	71 
Larry D. Stevanus 	
One Year in My Life 	72 
Don Vaccaro 	
The Wall 	87 
Kameron F. Ince 	
The Costs 	97 
Poems 	
Flag 	99 
Henry Burt Stevens 	
We Don’t Want to Play 	101 
Sandy Knauer 	
A Tiny Casualty 	103 
Michelle Close Mills 	

Hospice Vs. War 	106 
Pat Janus 	
Korea Body-Count 1950-1953 	108 
Sal Parlato, Jr. 	
Remembering Them 	109 
Jane Moress Schuster 	
War and Tears 	111 
Anne Usynski 	
Hattie Belle Hunsaker 	112 
Frank Robinette 	
My Brother Left, But He Came Back 	113 
Mitchell Waldman 	
A Forgotten Jewish Bride 	116 
Diana L. May 	
Holocaust Memorial Service (April 7, 1994) 	119 
Jane Moress Schuster 	
Baby Jew 	120 
Diana L. May 	
Essays/ Stories 	
A Veteran’s Words 	122 
Diana L. May 	
The Soldiers 	128 
William Heyen 	
Biographical Notes 	129