Soldiers in Hiding

by Richard Wiley

  ISBN 0-9716915-0-9

  Edited by Jeff Meyers

  THE MYRIAD REPERCUSSIONS and varied and often contradictory responses to the acts of terrorism perpetrated on September 11, 2001 have inspired thirty-four West Coast writers to come together in their attempts to make meaning from chaos. By virtue of history and geography, the West Coast has developed a community different from that of the East, but ultimately shared experiences bridge the distinctions in provocative and heartening ways. Jeff Meyers anthologizes the voices of American writers as history unfolds and the country braces, mourns, and rebuilds.

  Contributors include: Diana Abu- Jaber, T. C. Boyle, Michael Byers, Tom Clark, Joshua Clover, Peter Coyote, John Daniel, Harlan Ellison, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amy Gerstler, Lawrence Grobel, Ehud Havazelet, Ken Kesey, Maxine Hong Kingston, Stacey Levine, Tom Spanbauer, Primus St. John, Sallie Tisdale, Alice Walker, and many others.

  Baudrillard and his ilk make one grateful for Harlan Ellison, the science-fiction novelist, who tells a story in September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero.

  THE NEW YORK TIMES

  A remarkable anthology.

  THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

  Physical distance doesn’t mean emotional or intellectual remove: in Seattle poet Meyers’s anthology of diverse voices, 34 writers from the left coast weigh in on September 11 in poems, meditations, personal essays and polemics. New and vociferous patriots beware: many of the contributors share criticism as strong as their grief.

  PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

  [September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero] deserves attention. This book has some highly thoughtful contributions that should be read with care on both coasts, and even in between.

  THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

  Copyright ©2006 Richard Wiley

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage-and-retrieval systems, without prior permission in writing from the Publisher, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Wiley, Richard,

  Soldiers in hiding/

  Richard Wiley.

  p. cm.

  eISBN : 978-0-983-85043-4

  (alk. paper)

  1. World War. 1939 – 1945 – Fiction.

  I. Title.

  [ PS3573. I433S65 1991]

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