From the Periphery: Poems and Essays

by H. Palmer Hall

From the poems and essays was my first collection of poems and essays and deals with my experiences in Vietnam during the 1967-1968 war year. That was probably the single most crucial year of that war and stretched from the Battle of Dak To to the Seige of Khe Sanh.

Paperback

Published October 14, 1994

About the author

H. Palmer Hall was born in Beaumont, Texas, during World War II and spent most of his formative years in that city between the Big Thicket and the Gulf Coast. He was a Vietnamese interpreter/translator in the Army and spent the 1967-1968 war year in what was then South Vietnam. After returning from Vietnam, he worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) before being denied access to the Agency for marching in anti-war marches and signing a petition of 1,000+ active-duty soldiers opposed to the war. That petition appeared in The New York Times just before the great anti-war marches in Washington in the fall of 1969.
Hall is the editor/publisher of Pecan Grove Press, a small press operating out of St. Mary's University. His poems, short stories and essays have appeared in a variety of literary magazines including North American Review, The Texas Review, The Florida Review, The Texas Observer, Mizna: a journal of Arab American Culture. Briar Cliff Review, Ascent, Small Press Review, WLA: War, Literature & the Arts, Valaparaiso Poetry Review and many others, plus a variety of anthologies.