Presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
Enduring War: Stories of What We’ve Learned
Edited by Frank Stewart
The stories, essays, and poems in this volume render the effects of war in our time and the shadows they cast, from the Pacific campaigns of World War II to genocide under the Khmer Rouge to hostilities in the Middle East. Soldiers, however, are not in the foreground in most of these works. More often, the writers depict war as a destructive force on the lives of children, women, and other civilians, and capture the lasting, complex ways in which innocent individuals and communities are harmed.
Editor’s Note, vii
FICTION
Winterswijk, 1
Chester Aaron
The Story That Got Away, 45
Shahaduz Zaman
from The Gray Earth, 51
Galsan Tschinag
Last Song of Saravat, 69
Sharon May
The Scent of Thyme, 99
Chester Aaron
Heartless Willy, 119
Leo Litwak
Whisper Yet, 137
Ch’oe Yun
ESSAYS
On Being Unfree: Fences, Roadblocks, and the Iron Cage of Palestine, 13
David Shulman
Back to the World, 33
Vladislav Bajac
The Grim Reaper, Agrotherapy, Kokopelli, and Pinochet’s Darkness, 87
Shepherd Bliss
POETRY
First War, 12
Shmu’el HaNagid
News That Stays, 42
Peter Cole
My Pacific War on the Hidaka Plain, 67
Yumiko Tsumura
What Did I Learn in the Wars, 97
Yehuda Amichai
Four Poems, 109
Ayukawa Nobuo
Five Poems, 132
Tamura Ryuichi
Jerusalem, 160
Naomi Shihab Nye