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REMF Bibliography

A Bibliography of Viet Nam War Literature

Compiled by David A. Willson with Nancy Kendall

Viet Nam War Poetry S

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  • Sainte-Marie, Buffy. "The Universal Soldier" [see: Hogan, Homer. Poetry of Relevance]
  • Salisbury, Harrison E. (ed.) Vietnam Reconsidered: Lessons From a War. New York: Harper & Row, 1984 (1st edition).
    a. Weigl, Bruce. "Burning Shit at An Khe"
    b. Weigl, Bruce. "Girl at the Chu Lai Laundry"
    c. Weigl, Bruce. "Song for the Lost Private"
    d. Weigl, Bruce. "Song of Napalm"
  • SAMISDAT #93, Vol.24, no.1, 1980 [see: Ehrhart, W.D. The SAMISDAT Poems of W.D. Ehrhart]
  • SAMISDAT, Vol.29, No.1, 1981 [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • SAMISDAT #136, Vol.34, no.4, 1983 [see: Vernon, William. Praising the Sand]
  • SAMISDAT #141, Vol.36, no.1, 1983 [see: Barry, Jan. Veterans Day]
  • SAMISDAT #154, Vol.39, no.2, 1983 [see: Barry, Jan. War Baby]
  • SAMISDAT #177, vol.45, no.1, 1986. [see: Andrews, Michael. A Telegram, Unsigned]
  • SAMISDAT #216, Vol.54, no.4, 1989? [see: Trail, B.D. Flesh Wounds]
  • Savitt, Lynn. "Vietnam Dream" [see: Quick Brown Fox, February 1990]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Army Dump Trucks and Monks" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Banana Movie" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Bangkok Sights" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Cars and Cola" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Downers/Down On the Street" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Fear of Sky Death" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "15 October 1969: Camp Friendship, Thailand" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "First Night in Thailand" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Freezing My Ass Off in Sunny Indochina" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "The Gate and The Night and I" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Graveyard Shift at the Gate" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Green Machine and I" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings. [Samisdat, Vol.29, No.1] 1981 (chapbook). [written during author's 14 months service in Thailand as an MP, June 1969 to August 1970]
    "First Night in Thailand"
    ."Some Thai Spices in My Mind" (p."Graveyard Shift at the Gate"
    "October 1969: Camp Friendship, Thailand"
    "Green Machine and I"
    "The Gate and The Night and I"
    "Love in a Tropical Paradise"
    "Mystic Blind Armless Beggar"
    "Suranaree Bedlam"
    "Freezing My Ass Off in Sunny Indochina"
    "Into the Skin Maze"
    "Downers/Down On the Street"
    "Fear of Sky Death"
    "Army Dump Trucks and Monks"
    "Banana Movie"
    "Support Troops/Our Brains are Cooking Bugs"
    "Bangkok Sights"
    "Thoughts for the Water Festival (Songkran)
    "In All the Mountains"
    "Sunday Night Chiang Mai"
    "Learn"
    "Something Real"
    "Put Me to Sleep"
    "Newsreel Soldier"
    "Morning After a Night in Town"
    "Warm Wind"
    "Cars and Cola"
    "My Own Blood"
    "3:00 A.M. / One Night in Northeast Thailand" (p.16)
  • Schlosser, Robert. "In All the Mountains" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Into the Skin Maze" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Learn" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Love in a Tropical Paradise" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Morning After a Night in Town" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "My Own Blood" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Mystic Blind Armless Beggar" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Newsreel Soldier" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Put Me to Sleep" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Some Thai Spices in My Mind" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Something Real" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Sunday Night Chiang Mai" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Support Troops/Our Brains are Cooking Bugs" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Suranaree Bedlam" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Thoughts for the Water Festival (Songkran)" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "3:00 A.M. / One Night in Northeast Thailand" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schlosser, Robert. "Warm Wind" [see: Schlosser, Robert. The Humidity Readings]
  • Schoenleber, Tracy (ed.) The Wire Harp 1989 [a publication of Spokane Falls Community College]. Spokane, WA: Spokane Falls Community College, 1989.
    a. Buchheit, Robert. "A Sniper's Bullet"
    b. Keyes, Teresa. "Forward Movement"
    c. LaRue, Brad. "Cold Steel Rain"
    d. Pringle, Mike. "Monument"
    e. Williams, Craig W. "How Did I Know"
  • Scott, Herbert. "To A Woman Whose Fiance was Killed at War" [see: Massachusetts Review, Summer 1967]
  • Selender, Mike (ed.) Lactuca #14, May 1991, Suffern, NY]
    Glade, Jon Forrest. "FNG (fucking new guy)"
    Glade, Jon Forrest. "Body Bags"
    Glade, Jon Forrest. "Ladies Man"
    Glade, Jon Forrest. "Medical Report (Ashau Valley, 1969)" (p.52)
  • Shay, Norma Joan. "War" [see: Mirror Northwest, Summer 1971]
  • Shelley, Martha. Crossing the DMZ. Oakland, CA: Womens Press Collective, 1974. ["Martha Shelley is a certified public hitchhiker. She wrote these poems as an alternative service to the draft."]
    a. "Working On RAT: May 1970" (p.21)
    b. "A Letter From Hanoi" (pp.27-29) [anti-war/anti-draft poems]
  • Shelley, Martha. "A Letter From Hanoi" [see: Shelley, Martha. Crossing the DMZ]
  • Shelley, Martha. "Working On RAT: May 1970" [see: Shelley, Martha. Crossing the DMZ]
  • Shields, Bill. "abattoir" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991] [see: Yeager, Lisa Nease (ed.) Tabula Rasa, Vol.1, No.3, 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "after the fall" [see: Shields, Bill. Winners & Other Losers]
  • Shields, Bill. "And the Pain Just Never Goes Away" [see: Shields, Bill. Post-Vietnam Stress Syndrome]
  • Shields, Bill. "another Vietnam vet poem" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "autobiography" [see: Yeager, Lisa Nease (ed.) Tabula Rasa, Vol.1, No.3, 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. Bill Shields of Youngwood, PA. is God. Ann Arbor, MI: Smoke the Soul, 1991 (Chapbook, 42 pages of poems).
  • Shields, Bill. Blood Rain. Ann Arbor, MI: Smoke the Soul Press, [1992]. [ chapbook, published together with Cutthroat Blues by Blacky Hix ] [might be considered VERY VERY SHORT stories]
  • Shields, Bill. "bringing home the bacon" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "Disease Like Death Hanging" [see: Shields, Bill. Post-Vietnam Stress Syndrome]
  • Shields, Bill. Drinking Gasoline in Hell. Wichita, Kansas: Mumbles Publications, 1989.
  • Shields, Bill. "everything I ever had was ..." [see: Yeager, Lisa Nease (ed.) Tabula Rasa, Vol.1, No.3, 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. [Folded sheet of poems], edited by Bart Solarczyk. Emsworth, PA: Burnt Orphan Press, [1989?].
    a. "in country"
    b. "just the way it is"
    c. "my god"
    d. "a photo opportunity"
    e. "they only come out at night"
  • Shields, Bill. "for my daughters" [see: Shields, Bill. Winners & Other Losers] [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "for years" [see: Yeager, Lisa Nease (ed.) Tabula Rasa, Vol.1, No.3, 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "4:30 a.m." [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "geography" [see: Shields, Bill. Winners & Other Losers]
  • Shields, Bill. "Ghost Poem -- 6'4" / 240 lbs ..." [see: Glade, Jon Forrest (ed.) Owen Wister Review, Spring 1992]
  • Shields, Bill. "Ghost Poem -- I don't think the country is ever going to forgive us..." [see: Glade, Jon Forrest (ed.) Owen Wister Review, Spring 1992]
  • Shields, Bill. "guts" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. Human Shrapnel. Los Angeles: 2.13.61 Publications, 1991 (trade paperback). [includes 128 poems]
  • Shields, Bill. "I no longer dream of the day" [see: Yeager, Lisa Nease (ed.) Tabula Rasa, Vol.1, No.3, 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "in country" [see: Shields, Bill. [Folded sheet of poems]]
  • Shields, Bill. "the international" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "the job, always" [see: Shields, Bill. Winners & Other Losers]
  • Shields, Bill. "just the way it is" [see: Shields, Bill. [Folded sheet of poems]]
  • Shields, Bill. "Kathleen" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "miles of fear" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "my god" [see: Shields, Bill. [Folded sheet of poems]]
  • Shields, Bill. Nam: Selected Poems. Long Beach, CA: P.O Press, 1989.
  • Shields, Bill. "partyline" [see: Shields, Bill. Winners & Other Losers]
  • Shields, Bill. "a photo opportunity" [see: Shields, Bill. [Folded sheet of poems]]
  • Shields, Bill. "Poetry by Bill Shields" [see: Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1989]
  • Shields, Bill. Post-Vietnam Stress Syndrome. Second Coming, Vol. 17, no. 3, 1989. [5" X 11" broadside with 3 poems -- printed over 2-tone photo]
    a. "And the Pain Just Never Goes Away"
    b. "Disease Like Death Hanging"
    c. "Saturday Morning Cartoons"
  • Shields, Bill. "the rainbow poem" [see: Shields, Bill. Winners & Other Losers]
  • Shields, Bill. "ready, willing & able" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "The Real Firebase" [see: Dodson, Keith A. (ed.) BBQ'ed Poetry]
  • Shields, Bill. "the red badge of courage" [see: Shields, Bill. Winners & Other Losers]
  • Shields, Bill. "Saturday Morning Cartoons" [see: Shields, Bill. Post-Vietnam Stress Syndrome]
  • Shields, Bill. "showdown" [see: Quick Brown Fox, February 1990]
  • Shields, Bill. "spoils of war" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "straight from the heart" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "they only come out at night" [see: Shields, Bill. [Folded sheet of poems]
  • Shields, Bill. "Vietnam, & revisited" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "Vietnam Veteran" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "we circle one another" [see: Vietnam Generation Newsletter, June 1991]
  • Shields, Bill. "winners & other losers" [see: Shields, Bill. Winners & Other Losers]
  • Shields, Bill. Winners & Other Losers. Emsworth, PA: Burnt Orphan Press, [198?]. (very small format)
    a. "the rainbow poem" [p.1]
    b. "the red badge of courage" [p.2]
    c. "for my daughters" [p.3]
    d. "the job, always" [p.4]
    e. "after the fall" [p.5]
    f. "winners & other losers" [p.6]
    g. "geography" [p.7]
    h. "partyline" [p.8]
  • Sick Roof; A Journal of Humorous, Pathetic, and Serious Poetry, No.6, 1989.
    a. Glade, Jon Forrest. "Baptism (Ashau valley, 1969)"
  • Silverfish Review, No. 14, 1987 [see: Ward, Robert. Camera Obscura]
  • Silverman, Maxine. "Somewhere on the Delta" [see: Villani, Jim, et al. (eds.). Viet Nam Flashbacks: Pig Iron No. 12.]
  • Simpson, Louis. "The Wall Test" [see: Chelsea 24/25, October 1968]
  • Sinclair, John. "Breakthrough" [see: Major, Clarence (ed.) The New Black Poetry]
  • Smith, Larry. [untitled poem -- "Mine eyes have seen the glory..."] [see: Barber, Dustan (ed.) Essence]
  • Smith, Richard R. Reflexes and Reflections: Vietnam. 1985. [small press publication, numbered and signed -- #136 of 200] [includes poetry, artwork, and miscellaneous materials]
  • Snyder, Gary. "In the House of the Rising Sun" [see: di Prima, Diane (ed.) War Poems]
  • Snyder, Gary. "Dear Mr President" [see: di Prima, Diane (ed.) War Poems]
  • Snyder, Gary. "A Curse on the Men in Washington, Pentagon" [see: di Prima, Diane (ed.) War Poems]
  • Solarczyk, Bart (ed.) Jig Saw Puzzle. [see: Glade, Jon Forrest. Jig Saw Puzzle]
  • Solotaroff, Theodore (ed.) American Review 17; The Magazine of New Writing. New York: Bantam Books, 1973 (no.17, May 1973 -- marketed as mass market paperback anthology).
    a. Browne, Michael Dennis. "hallowe'en 1971"
  • Soular, James. "Last Dance of the Chinook A-Go-Go" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Soular, James. "Letter to David, Dead These 20 Years" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Soular, James. "The Thousand-Yard Stare" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Sparks, Bill. "Celebrate 1969" [see: Sparks, Bill. The Last Triumphant Tour]
  • Sparks, Bill. The Last Triumphant Tour. Phoenix, AZ: Manville Publishing, 1974 (1st printing).
    a. "Celebrate 1969"
    b. "To a Short Time Friend"
  • Sparks, Bill. "To a Short Time Friend" [see: Sparks, Bill. The Last Triumphant Tour]
  • Stamm, Geoffrey. Atrocities: Vietnam Poetry. [Hiram Poetry Review, Supplement No. 10], 1989.
  • Stanford, Frank. The Light the Dead See. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991 (trade paperback)
    "They Were Society People" (p.90) [Army cook in Vietnam becomes cook back in The World]
  • Stanford, Frank. "They Were Society People" [see: Stanford, Frank. The Light the Dead See]
  • Stephenson, Sallie. "Interview, 1982" [see: Villani, Jim, et al. (eds.). Viet Nam Flashbacks: Pig Iron No. 12.]
  • Steptoe, Lamont B. "Ambush" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Steptoe, Lamont B. "Burning Waters" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Steptoe, Lamont B. "Mad Minute" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Steptoe, Lamont B. Mad Minute. Camden, NJ: Whirlwind Press, 1990 (1st edition, 500 copies, limited edition book -- design and layout by Lamont B. Steptoe).
  • Steptoe, Lamont B. "No One Stays" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Steptoe, Lamont B. "Parts" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Steptoe, Lamont B. "Returning the Missing" [see: Chiron Review, Spring 1991]
  • Storey, Sandra. "Patrol" [see: Villani, Jim, et al. (eds.). Viet Nam Flashbacks: Pig Iron No. 12.]
  • Sund, Robert. Ish River. San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1983. (dust jacket)

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