Thank You for Your Service

<p> Fifty-five years in the writing these are the collected poems of W.D. Ehrhart one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature. Arranged chronologically it allows readers to trace the development of a writer whose talents are bound together by the lingering physical psychological political and intellectual sensibilities the author first developed as a young enlisted Marine during the Vietnam War. And while many of the poems deal with the author's encounter with the Vietnam War and its endless consequences the poems range widely in content from family and friends to nature and the environment to the blessings and absurdities of the human condition.</p>