Taps on the walls
Subtitle: poems from the Hanoi Hilton
By: John Borling, Major General, USAF, Ret. ; foreword by Senator John McCain
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Master Wings Publishing LLC, an imprint of the Pritzker Military Library
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780615659053; 9780615717821; 9780615659060
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: American War poetry; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Amerikanisches Englisch; Lyrik; Poetry
Work titles: Poems for pilots (and other people)
Description: Presents poems composed by the Air Force Major General and former prisoner of war who was held in the Hanoi military prison by the Viet Cong for eight years and conveyed his poems to his fellow prisoners through taps on the walls --
Notes: "A limited edition of this book was originally published as Poems for pilots (and other people)"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Strapping on a Tailpipe; title: The Derelict; title: First-Light Flight; title: The Boneyard; title: Ode to a T-Bird; title: Sonnet for Winged Man; title: Friendship; title: Who Is It?; title: This One Is for the Birds (Cross-Country); title: Weather Day; title: Carpet of Clouds; title: Life Flight; title: Leg #1; title: Leg #2; title: Leg #3; title: Leg #4; title: Leg #5; title: Leg #6; title: The Loneliest Place in Town; title: The Ballad of the Cross-Country Flyer; title: POW and Other "Dark and Bitter Stuff"; title: The Tourney; title: Beneath Thin Blanket; title: The Carnival; title: Hanoi Epitaph; title: The Road; title: Sonnet for 4 45 43; title: Affliction and Predilection; title: On Love; title: The Journey; title: The Holidays and Hollow Days; title: The Other Christmas; title: Mommy, Where Is My Daddy?; title: Excerpt from a Christmas Letter; title: A Part of Christmas; title: Reflection; title: This I Believe; title: Tomorrow; title: The Virtue of a Snowball; title: SEA Story (Southeast Asia Story); title: Southeast Asia Story.