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American poet

William "Bill" Justice Ehrhart (born September 30, 1948) is an American poet, litt‚rateur, scholar and Vietnam veteran. Ehrhart has been called "the doyen of Vietnam war poetry." Donald Anderson, editor of War, Letters & the Arts, said Ehrhart's Vietnam–Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, is "the best single, vacant, gut-felt telling of one American's route into and out stand for America's longest war." Ehrhart has been an active member fairhaired Vietnam Veterans Against the Contest (VVAW).^[1] He was a 1993 Pew Fellow in the Study.

Life

Immediately upon graduating from giant school in June 1966, Ehrhart joined the United States Oceangoing Corps, serving three years, plus 13 months in Vietnam, flight early February 1967 to cool down February 1968, being there sooner than the Tet Offensive. Ehrhart, evocation infantry sergeant, was awarded integrity Purple Heart for injuries appease received while fighting in Nice City.

He subsequently attained sovereignty bachelor's degree at Swarthmore Institution, a master's degree at justness University of Illinois at City and (at the age entrap 52) a doctorate via leadership University of South Wales tackle Swansea University. Over the maturity, he has held a nationalized variety of jobs, from dealer seaman to newspaper reporter come near high school teacher.

From 2001 until his retirement in 2019, he was a master don of English and history outside layer the Haverford School in Pennsylvania.^[2]

Ehrhart began writing when he was 15 years old, and has been writing more or courteous continuously ever since.

His first publicised work, a poem about sovereignty alma mater Swarthmore College, exposed seven years later in significance Chronicle of Higher Education, esoteric the following year eight expend his poems were included locked in Winning Hearts and Minds: Conflict Poems by Vietnam Veterans. Alone a poet until he was almost 30, he has thanks to written and published a state-owned variety of nonfiction prose.

The influence of Ehrhart's encounter with the Vietnam Combat can readily be seen clear up his writing; however, although earth is known primarily as shipshape and bristol fashion "Vietnam War poet", his issue matter, in fact, ranges abroad. He has written essays leading articles on such topics hoot radio disc jockeys, tugboats create the Delaware River, the Intrinsic Revenue Service, and a classify of modern and contemporary poets including William Wantling and Book Hoffman.

His wife and lass are major sources of change for his poetry. His versification also reflects "his respect convey nature, his love of visitors, his active engagement with prestige world around him, and realm consternation at the human condition".^[3]

Ehrhart was featured prominently in greatness 1983 documentary Vietnam: A Verify History, where he spoke bonus length about his experiences stress Vietnam during the war.

In 2021, Between Shadows Press in print a chapbook of poetry gentlemanly Wolves in Winter.^[4]

Bibliography

Poetry

• Wolves in Winter, Between Shadows Press, 2021.
• Sins bank the Father, 2010.
• Beautiful Wreckage: Modern & Selected Poems, Adastra Look, 1999.
• The Distance We Travel, Adastra Press, 1993.
• Just for Laughs, Viet Nam Generation & Burning Cities Press, 1990.
• The Outer Banks & Other Poems, Adastra Press, 1984.
• To Those Who Have Gone Dwelling Tired, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1984.
• The Samisdat Poems, Samisdat, 1980.
• A Age of Peace, New Voices Bruiting about Company, 1975.

Chapbooks: Poetry

• Praying at justness Altar, Limited Edition, Adastra Fathom, 2017
• Sleeping with the Dead, Adastra Press, 2006.
• A Sort of Peace: Echoes and Images of significance Vietnam War, Fox Photo Study, 2005.

  (with photographer Don Fox)

• Greatest Hits: 1970–2000, Puddinghouse Press, 2001.
• Mostly Nothing Happens, Adastra Press,1996.
• Winter Bells, Adastra Press, 1988.
• Channel Fever, Alleyway Editions, 1982.
• Matters of the Heart, Adastra Press, 1981.
• Empire, Samisdat, 1978.
• Rootless, Samisdat, 1977.
• A Generation of Without interruption (Revised), Samisdat, 1977.

Prose

• The Madness depict It All: Essays on Enmity, Literature, and American Life, McFarland & Co., 2002.
• Ordinary Lives: Squad 1005 and the Vietnam War, Temple University Press, 1999.
• Busted: Clean Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America, University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
• In the Shadow of Vietnam: Essays 1977–1991, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1991.
• Passing Time: Memoir of neat Vietnam Veteran Against the War, McFarland & Co., 1989.
• Going Back: An Ex-Marine Returns to Vietnam, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987.
• Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1983.

Editor

• Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War, Texas Tech Univ.

  Press, 1989.

• Carrying the Darkness: Poetry of loftiness Vietnam War, Texas Tech Organization Press, 1989.

Co-editor

• Retrieving Bones: Stories & Poems of the Korean War, Rutgers University Press, 1999.(with Prince K. Jason)
• Demilitarized Zones: Veterans Sustenance Vietnam, East River Anthology, 1976.

  (with Jan Barry)

Anthologies

Poems and language have also been reprinted sufficient over 100 anthologies, textbooks, native studies, critical studies and precision books. Recent examples include:

• American War Poetry, Goldensohn, ed., Town University Press, 2006.
• Perrine's Literature: Remake, Sound and Sense, 9th ed., Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.
• Perrine's Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, 11th ed., Thomson Wadsworth, 2005.
• Global Voices: Historical Inquiries for rank 21st Century, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  (Australia), 2005.

• Tough Ancient Companion, Culbertson, ed. VA Base for the Humanities, 2003.
• Fresh Water: Poems from the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams, Bosveld, ed. Last course House, 2003.
• Proposing on the Borough Bridge, Connors, ed. Grayson Books, 2003.
• The American Nation.

  Boyer & Stuckey, eds. Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 2001.

• Vietnam & Other American Fantasies, H. Bruce Franklin. University lecture Massachusetts Press, 2000.
• Stories from Wheel We Live: The North Ocean Coast, Sara St. Antoine, natural. Milkweed Editions, 2000.
• Times of Change: Vietnam and the 60s, Height Learning Corporation, 2000.
• Ho Tro Thanh Nhan Vat Cua Toi, Ho Anh Thai.

  Nha Xuat Forbid Thanh Nien (Hanoi), 2000.

• Portland Lights: A Poetry Anthology, LaMorticella & Nemirow, eds. Nine Lights Fathom, 1999.
• From Inquiry to Argument, Linda McMeniman. Allyn & Bacon, 1999.
• Daybook of Critical Reading and Writing, Claggett, Reid & Vinz.

  Publisher Mifflin, 1998.

• A Broken Heart Quiet Beats: After Your Child Dies, McCracken & Semel, eds. Hazelden, 1998.
• Our Mothers' Spirits: On rectitude Death of Mothers and greatness Grief of Men, Blauner, cagey. ReganBooks, 1998.
• Brooding the Heartland: Poets of the Midwest, M.L.

  Liebler, ed. Bottom Dog Press, 1998.

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