David Vancil is retired from Indiana State University. He has published poetry in small journals, such as Concho River Review, Blue Unicorn, The Heartland Review, The Hardy Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Westview, So It Goes, WLA: War, Literature and the Arts, and The Main Street Rag. His poetry chapbooks include The Art School Baby, Night Photo, and Moon Walking. A larger collection, The Homesick Patrol, was published in 1995. The title poem was featured in the introduction and anthologized in From Both Sides Now (1998), which is the first or a very early representation of poetry by combatants on both sides during the Vietnam War. David has BA, MA (Creative Writing), and MLS degrees. He earned his PhD in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1985. He is a Fellow of the Dictionary Society of North America. Expiation: War and Its Discontents is the culmination of decades of writing poems reflecting on his and others’ experiences in the military, particularly in times of strife. He lives in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (December 23, 2022)