Resources & Bibliography
On this page you will find a list of resources relating to veterans, PTSD, and writing.
Websites:
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Time Now Blog (Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in Art, Film & Literature)
Books:
Castner, Brian. The Long Walk.
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2000.
Gallagher, Matt ed. Fire and Forget.
Goldensohn, Lorrie, ed. American War Poetry: An Anthology. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Grossman, Dave. On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace. NP: Warrior Science Publications, 2008.
Grossman, Dave. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. New York, NY: Bay Back Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
Jones, David. In Parenthesis. New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2003.
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King, Brooke. War Flower.
Klay, Phil. Redeployment.
Komunyakaa, Yusef. Dien Cai Dau. Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, 1988.
Mahony, Phillip, ed. From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and its Aftermath. New York, NY: Scribner Poetry, 1998.
Orr, Gregory. Poetry as Survival. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2002.
Owen, Wilfred. The Poems of Wilfred Owen. Ed. Jon Stallworthy. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1986.
Radnóti, Miklós Clouded Sky. Trans. Steven Polgar, Stephen Berg, and S.J. Marks. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: The Sheep Meadow Press, 2003.
Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York, NY: Scribner, 1994.
Shay, Jonathan. Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Coming Home. New York, NY: Scribner, 2002.
Stallworthy, Jon, ed. The Oxford Book of War Poetry. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2003.
Tatum, James. The Mourner’s Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Turner, Brian. Here, Bullet. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2005.
Turner, Brian. Phantom Noise. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2010.