Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill so that we might learn

so that we might learn astonishment / again

Past President

“The Able Life of Cody Jane serves as a reminder that life is simply too short to be defined by others’ misperceptions of our abilities

to far-flung Caribbean and Pacific islands and to the remote outposts in the Amazon

This myriad-voiced long poem embraces the detritus and paraphernalia of its moment

Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill so that we might learnA little girl asked her father, "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" Tucking his child in bed, he answered with a fantastic story about a whale. A tale she wholeheartedly believed, until she didn't. He never talked about his war again. Coming of age during the Vietnam era, the daughter watched war play out on TV, listened to broadcasts of the draft on the radio, faced the mirror of a Vietnam Memorial engraved with names of the dead, joined the protest