Includes index.

Part 1.Perspectives : A prayer for relief / Jose? Diaz -- Collective madness / Chris Hedges -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- A soldier's story / David Connolly -- War : the concise version / Rachel Bentham -- Honey comes from within / Nguyen Duy -- Trauma of war / Jonathan Shay -- Order of war / John Akins. Part 2. Voices : I trace your name across the sky / Emily Warn -- Come back momentary father / Emily Warn -- War poetry and west point / William Lennox -- Vigil strange I kept on the field one night / Walt Whitman -- I to my pledged word am true / Paul Mysliwiec -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- Combat is a one-way door / Craig White -- Rockets destroying a happy family / Ali Habash -- Everything that was beautiful is gone / Sinan Antoon -- Wrinkles on the wind's forehead / Sinan Antoon -- Growing up in the shadow of guns / Chris Abani -- Stabat mater / Chris Abani -- He went out one day, and never came back / Antonieta Villamil -- Letter to the brother that went to war / Antonieta Villamil. Part 3. Looking back : Why art, why now? / Alix Wilber -- Strange meeting / Wilfred Owen -- Thirty days on the front line: sassoon and owen / Dominic Hibberd -- A history of poetry and war / Jon Stallworthy -- Drummer hodge / Thomas Hardy -- Toward a future without war / Jonathan Schell. Part 4. Beyond wartime : Let's get it right this time / John Henry Parker -- Need for hope : civilian casualties of war / Enas Mohamed -- Nuts & bolts of PTSD : an insider's view / Sheila Sebron -- Opening of the heart / Beverly Boos -- Hell-fire and transcendence / Andrew Himes -- If you are lucky in this life / Cameron Penny -- This is a language made for blood / Brian Turner.