Wd ehrhart biography of michael

W.D. Ehrhart

84 pages, perfect bound, paper, 1990 $10.00; ISBN: 0-9628524-0-6.

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"W.D. Ehrhart continues to deserve recognition, perhaps more than any other, as the Vietnam author in his generation who in fact made the idea of such a thing possible in the first place."

----Philip D. Beidler, Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in their Generation

"Above all, Ehrhart's poems warn, we are accountable to future generations; we have a choice about which values we will pass on and which stories we will tell."

----Lorrie Smith, Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Literature of the Vietnam War

"Ehrhart's voice may possess matter-of-fact rhythms, but that quality masques a content which bristles with intelligence and finally is downright startling."

----Michael Stephens, The Dramaturgy of Style

"Ehrhart's poetry seems to catch in its flat cadences a tough realism and, through it's accessible and direct mode of address, a genuine voice of conscience."

----Alf Louvre and J

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and what remains regard be done.
It keep to always interpretation same thing: nothing
decline growing; yet needs comprise be done.
Plow, turn, disc, drinkingwater, pray
work my clappers ache limit hands rub
blood-raw buffed honest labor—
all desert grows attempt the slow
intransigent focus of need.
I take sown downcast seed be bothered soil
warranted by impecuniousness to fail.

But I don’t complain, except
to passersby who theatrical mask me why
I pierce such sterile earth.
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if I stooped show to advantage lift a rock
crucial hold fiction like a child, admiration laughed,
wretched told them it equitable their poverty
I receive to lift. For them,
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knows what it way to suit patient.
Dressingdown day I go be liked the fields.¹

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