Fall 2010

In addition to its usual wide variety of poems, essays, and fiction, the current edition of Connecticut Review features a special section entitled Veterans of War. The section contains stories and poems by vets from the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Vietnam and World War II. Here's a sample of a poem by Rick Christman:

What Remains
I thought I'd remember everything.
A recorder of horror.
Camera eyes.
Details.
Listen, I'd say.
This is what I saw.
This.
But now all that remains
Is a wiry old man naked to the waist
In a rocking sampan,
Pulling a rope for all he is worth,
Until the river swamps everything,
Everything.

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