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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Poetry about the Vietnam War continues to move readers with its stark expression of grief. Here, editor Mahony, a New York City police officer, arranges poems by 135 poets in chronological order "to simulate the progression of the Vietnam War." Poems of the North and South Vietnamese, "boat people," and postwar Vietnamese American second-generation poets appear beside well-known names (e.g., Ehrhart, Komunyakaa, and Weihl). Some of the Vietnamese contributors, widely published in the "global Vietnamese community," deserve more recognition, among them Bao-Long Chu, Nguyen Chi Thien, Barbara Tran, and Tran Mong Tu. The American (anti-) war poetry is characterized by reportorial focus on loss of innocence and spiritual wounding. Community-oriented and gutsy, the Asian poets display more formal eloquence and a spirit of sad sacrifice. Cross-fertilization between peoples of different backgrounds and lands reveals that out of war and its difficult aftermath comes strong healing synergy that transcends barriers of age, gender, nationality, political belief, and race. As one veteran concludes: "Because we are brothers/ there are tears in our eyes." This useful anthology of multicultural, war-scarred poetry might help erase "Nam Nightmares."AFrank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, PA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Wanting to revive awareness of the Vietnam War, which he sees slipping into oblivion because Americans would rather not talk about it, Philip Mahony has crafted a new kind of war-poetry anthology. He has chosen poems by both Americans and Vietnamese; by both adults involved in the fighting and children, now grown, who were displaced by it; and by both combatants and protesters. He presents them in 10 parts, "to simulate the progression of the Vietnam War." The poems in the first part mark the self-immolations of Buddhists in Saigon and a Quaker in Washington, D.C., and the injunctions of saber-rattling politicians. Then come clutches of combat poems, protest poems, poems of stoic endurance, poems about bombings and atrocities, poems about those additionally victimized during the war (black soldiers, women, children), poems about the American evacuation, poems of exile and immigration, poems about the Vietnam Wall, and poems by young adults seeking parents and cultures lost decades ago. Read in order, the poems create a vivid and emotionally powerful panorama of the war and its wake. Only a vast oral history combined with a vast philosophical novel might surpass this collection's portrayal of how what happened in Vietnam affected the ordinary people swept up in it. Ray Olson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Poetry about the Vietnam War continues to move readers with its stark expression of grief. Here, editor Mahony, a New York City police officer, arranges poems by 135 poets in chronological order "to simulate the progression of the Vietnam War." Poems of the North and South Vietnamese, "boat people," and postwar Vietnamese American second-generation poets appear beside well-known names (e.g., Ehrhart, Komunyakaa, and Weihl). Some of the Vietnamese contributors, widely published in the "global Vietnamese community," deserve more recognition, among them Bao-Long Chu, Nguyen Chi Thien, Barbara Tran, and Tran Mong Tu. The American (anti-) war poetry is characterized by reportorial focus on loss of innocence and spiritual wounding. Community-oriented and gutsy, the Asian poets display more formal eloquence and a spirit of sad sacrifice. Cross-fertilization between peoples of different backgrounds and lands reveals that out of war and its difficult aftermath comes strong healing synergy that transcends barriers of age, gender, nationality, political belief, and race. As one veteran concludes: "Because we are brothers/ there are tears in our eyes." This useful anthology of multicultural, war-scarred poetry might help erase "Nam Nightmares."AFrank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, PA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Wanting to revive awareness of the Vietnam War, which he sees slipping into oblivion because Americans would rather not talk about it, Philip Mahony has crafted a new kind of war-poetry anthology. He has chosen poems by both Americans and Vietnamese; by both adults involved in the fighting and children, now grown, who were displaced by it; and by both combatants and protesters. He presents them in 10 parts, "to simulate the progression of the Vietnam War." The poems in the first part mark the self-immolations of Buddhists in Saigon and a Quaker in Washington, D.C., and the injunctions of saber-rattling politicians. Then come clutches of combat poems, protest poems, poems of stoic endurance, poems about bombings and atrocities, poems about those additionally victimized during the war (black soldiers, women, children), poems about the American evacuation, poems of exile and immigration, poems about the Vietnam Wall, and poems by young adults seeking parents and cultures lost decades ago. Read in order, the poems create a vivid and emotionally powerful panorama of the war and its wake. Only a vast oral history combined with a vast philosophical novel might surpass this collection's portrayal of how what happened in Vietnam affected the ordinary people swept up in it. Ray Olson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.