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Newsletter Still Doesn't Have Any Reporting on Direct Queries and Submissions To: Recent Developments in U.S N ewsletter NoVEMbER, 1991 VolUME 5 NuMbER 5 SpEciAl JournaL Issue In This Issue................................................................ 2 The Speed of DAnksess ancI "CrazecJ V ets on tHe oorstep rama e o s e PublJshER's S tatement, by Ka U TaL .............................5 D D ," by DAvId J. D R ...............40 REMF Books, by DAvid WHLs o n .............................. 45 A nnouncements, Notices, & Re p o r t s ......................... 4 eter C ortez In DarIen, by ALan FarreU ........................... 22 PoETRy, by P D ssy............................................4 4 FIctIon: Hie Romance of Vietnam, VoIces fROM tHe Past: TTie SearcTi foR Hanoi HannaK by RENNy ChRlsTophER...................................... 24 by Don NortTi ...................................................44 A FiREbAlL In tBe Nlqlrr, by WHUam M. KiNq...........25 H ollyw ood CoNfidENTlAl: 1, b y FREd GARdNER........ 50 Topics foR VJetnamese-U.S. C ooperation, PoETRy, by DennIs FRiTziNqER................................... 57 by Tran Qoock VuoNq....................................... 27 Ths A ll CWnese M ercenary BAskETbAll Tournament, Science FIctIon: This TIme It's War, by PauI OLim a r t ................................................ 57 by ALascIaIr SpARk.............................................29 (Not Much of a) War Story, by Norman LanquIst ...59 M y Last War, by Ernest Spen cer ............................50 Poetry, by Norman LanquIs t ...................................60 M etaphor ancI War, by GEORqE LAkoff....................52 A notBer Ta Ie of TBere ANd BAck AqAlN, PoETRy, by Stephen HidAlqo................................... 40 by DAvid CoNNolly...................................................61 ViETNAM G eneration, Inc. PRESidENT ViCE-PRESkkNT SECRETARY, TREASURER TEcllNiCAl ASSISTANCE Kali Tal Herman Beavers Cynthia Fuchs Lawrence E. Hunter NewsIetter EcHtor: Dan Duffy CoNTRiburiNq EdiTORS Book RevIew EdiTOR: Dan Scripture Renny Christopher, David DeRose, Alan Farrell, Cynthia Fuchs, William M. King, Bill Shields, Tony Williams, David Willson AdvisoRy BoARd NANCY ANISF1ELD PHILIP JASON JOHN CLARK PRATT ROBERT SLABEY St. Michael's College US Naval Academy Colorado State University University of Notre Dame KEVIN BOWEN WILLIAM KING JOCK REYNOLDS BARBARA TISCHLER William Joiner Center University of Colorado Washington Project for the Arts Columbia University University of Massachusetts MICHAEL KLEIN TOM RIDDELL NANCY WEIGERSMA JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN University of Ulster Smith College Fitchburg State College Vanderbilt University GABRIEL KOLKO RUTH ROSEN CHRISTINE PELZER WHITE RICHARD FALK York University UC Davis University of Hawaii Cornell University JACQUELINE LAWSON WILLIAM J. SEARLE DAVID WILLSON DAVID HUNT DAVID MARR Eastern Illinois University Green River CC William Joiner Center Australian National University JAMES C. SCOTT MARILYN B. YOUNG University of Massachusetts Yale University New York University Address correspondence and inquiries to Dan Duffy, 18 Center Rd., Woodbridge, CT 06525; (203) 387-6882; FAX: (203) 389-6104 NOVEMbER, 1991 V ietnam G eneration, Inc. VolUME 5 NuMbER 5 FUm : B od y C ounts, b y CyNThlA Fuchs.................. 65 movies. WeVe got Dennis Fritzinger. LZ Friendly editor, with a poem about surfing against Ho. We have vet biker PoETRy, by BILL ShiElds............................................65 tattoo fetishist Norman Lanquist in both a poem and an essay. We've got memoirist Ernest Spencer and linguist ANd He BlESSEd M e Unaware: V eterans Eve 1989, Gordon LakofT and poet Stephen Hidalgo on Desert by GRETchEN KAy Lu t z ...................................... 66 Storm, we've got David Connolly talking about Ores and hobbits at the old firebase, we've got dozens of pages of PoETRy, by BILL Jo n e s .............................................. 68 informative and entertaining writing. Journalist Don North interviews Hanoi Hannah, and Fred Gardner recalls Jane Fonda's raid on the G.I. movement. Paul Ohmart PoETRy, by Jon Forrest GlAdE................................. 71 reveals the greatest Green Beret boondoggle of all time. Alasdair Spark shows once and for all, with diagrams, PoETRy, by LERoy QuIntana......................................72 that Aliens is a Vietnam War movie. Our Book Editor evaluates Marilyn Young's new history of the war. Dana StILI ThE Street WlfhouT Joy, by RoLjert FlyNN.... 72 Sachs reviews the new edition of Barbara Cohen's Vietnam guidebook. Bill Shields reviews Richard Wilmarth and Book RevIews: MARilyN B. Younq, The Vietnam Wars, Jon Forrest Glade. Shields and Glade and Leroy Quintana and Peter Desy and cowboy Bill Jones all contribute 1949-1990. REvfEwsd by Dan Scripture; BarUara CoHen, poems. Daniel Egger gives a fair summary of Men's The Vietnam Guidebook, ANd LoNEly PLanet's Vietnam, Movement poet Robert Bly's recent work. Sandy Primm takes a quick look at Delores Koenning's home psychiatric La o s, A N d CAMbodU: A TraveI S urvIvaI K It, REviEWEd manual for veterans, and at Lynda Van DeVanter and by Dana SAchs, RoLjert Bly, Iron J o h N : A Book Abour Joan A. Furey's collection of women’s poetry from the M en, REviEWEd by Dat^eL Eqqer; DeLores A. KoennInq, Life war. Gretchen Kay Lutz talks about her walk by the Wall. Men's magazine writer and novelist Robert Lopez Flynn ATter Vietnam, ANd LyNdA Van DeVanter ANd Joan A. revisits Camp Baxter. William M. King, Director of Afro- FuREy, VIsIo ns of War, D rea m s of P eace, REviEWEd by American Studies at Boulder, expounds on the riots of '67. David Willson natters on about the glorious role of SANdy PrImm; RichARd WILmartLi, poised foR war, ANd clerk- typists in our nation's military history. We're honored Jon Forrest GlAdE, PhoTOQRAphy of rhe JunqIe, to have Tran Quoc Vuong, one of Hanoi’s top academics, REviEWEd by Bill ShiElds; Georqe BAilEy, Germans, proposing a list of potential joint ventures between U.S. and Vietnamese scholars. REviEWEd by DAvkJ M. LuEbks................................74 There's lots more. Read the Table of Contents. Read the Announcements, Notices, and Reports. Read the ENd Note, by KaU TaL......................................... 82 Features and Book Reviews. Write us a letter about what you’re up to. In This Issue This newsletter still doesn't have any reporting on Direct queries and submissions to: recent developments in U.S. relations with Southeast Asia. We come out quarterly so we can't keep up with the Dan Duffy Cambodia negotiations. The basic thrust of them is always that the U.S. is eager to establish full diplomatic 18 Center Rd. ties with Pol Pot, but the details are important. You Woodbridge, CT 06525 should all subscribe to Indochina Digest, or one of the (203) 387-6882 other newsletters devoted to political reporting. I'll print FAX: (203) 389-6104 a roundup of such services in the next issue. I can't wrap up this issue in one short notice. It's too Vietnam Generation Newsletter is a publication big. The Features section starts with Alan Farrell on of Vietnam Generation, Inc. traumatic amputation in Homer. Renny Christopher 2921 Terrace Drive, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 inaugurates her regular fiction column with a piece on (301) 608-0622; FAX: (301) 608-0761. Danielle Steel and other romance novelists who have imagined the war. It goes on and on after that, one great poem or essay after another. We've got Cynthia Fuchs and David J. DeRose addressing about 30 plays and 2 NoVEMbER, 1991 V ietnam G eneration, Inc. VolUME 5 NllMbER 5 than two articles from one issue, that you ask your P ublisher’s S tatement students to purchase the book.) We discount books used for courses (25%), but if your students must purchase them through a university bookstore, this discount is As you have certainly noticed by now, this issue often not passed on. For those professors who feel represents a departure from our usual format. We decided comfortable with the idea of selling the texts directly to to print a special combined joumal/newsletter because the student, we can arrange to send the correct number we had a massive backlog of interesting and well-written of copies and have you collect the money and send us a material which simply didn't fit into our standard check. This way students can pay $8 instead of $12 for anthologies. You will find a little bit of everything here: an average issue. poetry, fiction, memoirs, essays, reviews and interviews. Our format will continue to evolve, and we hope that What I Think of the Newsletter you will keep us informed about what you like and what Delegating responsibility is both a wonderful and a you don’t like. As a completely subscriber-supported painful experience. Since Dan has taken over the position enterprise, Vietnam Generation is shaped by the needs as Newsletter editor. I have been delighted to note a and desires of its readership. This means that we read marked improvement in literary quality, an increase in and carefully consider every comment and suggestion we the number of submissions, and the introduction of a receive. regular series of features and reviews into the publication. Status Report All good Newsletters are shaped by the idiosyncratic style To date, approximately 125 libraries subscribe to of their editors, and it's become clear to me that Dan lives Vietnam Generation., including college and university up to the finest traditions of the genre: his witty and libraries, state historical associations, public school and elegant prose betrays an Unshakeable Bad Attitude. I community libraries, and military libraries. New library look forward to doing page-layout and proofreading the subscriptions are coming in every month, and most new Newsletter—a task I formerly dreaded—because these subscribers buy back issues. You can help this process days it's the first look I get at most of the material we’re along by going to your own institution's library and printing. inundating it with requests to subscribe. The painful part of delegating responsibility, however, Like most journals, we have a hard time keeping up is that sometimes things don't go quite the way you want with our individual subscribers. Libraries renew on a them too.
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