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Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War

3 reviews

Texas Tech University Press, 1989

Best Compilation of Vietnam Poetry
War poetry, as oppossed to poetry written by veterans, is certainly not new. The "Iliad" comes to mind. Most English literature classes also throw in poetry from World War I, which produced the likes of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Not since Vietnam has American Literature produced such fine poets. Thanks to the best-known Vietnam War poet Will Ehrhart, ofter described as the "Poet ...

Unaccustomed to Fear (MCA Heritage Library)
Roger Willcock

Marine Corps Association, 1968

Unaccustomed Earth

117 reviews
Jhumpa Lahiri

Knopf, 2008

Rich with detail and complexity, these short stories are novels that end too soon
As we've come to expect from Jhumpa Lahiri, this collection of eight short stories examines the immigrant experience in America, including the difficulties of adjusting to a new culture and workplace and the clashes between immigrant parents and their fully American children. Lahiri's stories, however, are not limited to immigrant issues but address global issues relevant worldwide: how we need ...

Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri

Books on Tape, 2008

Unaccustomed Earth: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
Jhumpa Lahiri

Vintage, 2009

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize?winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he?s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he?s keeping all ...