CONTENTS: Eleven poems ranging from the effects of fireworks on a war veteran to resurrecting the memory of an old love and finally burying it. None of these poems is about Ehrhart?s Vietnam experiences, but each is informed by those memories, whether listening to the president saying violence is not the answer while he is ordering missiles launched (?Kosovo?), or remembering that 9/11 changed the world similarly as did Sputnik where patriotism is called for or is called into question (?Manning the Walls?), or refusing to talk about escapist love (?All About Love?). Ehrhart?s voice is sure, his rhythms contemporary, his themes relevant and moving.Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, said about Ehrhart?s Selected Poems (Adastra 1999), ?.a moving record of how Vietnam hurt him into poetry, and into a moral vision that?s as kindred with ambiguity as it is intolerant of sham.I?m full of admiration for his achievement.?EDITION: Limited to 390 handsewn copies letterpress printed from machine and handset Monotype Pabst Oldstyle onto archival Mohawk Superfine text with Classic Linen Graystone endwrapper and Royal Fiber Birch cover.