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Publication
[Middletown, Conn.] : Hanover [N.H.] : Wesleyan University Press ; University Press of New England, c1993.
Description
An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam.
User reviews
LibraryThing member FKarr
I really enjoyed the poems early in the book - about growing up in the South and his family and his VietNam experiences. His jazz poems were technically brilliant, but the subject matter was less appealing and outside my experience; I found them difficult to relate to.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize (Winner — Poetry — 1994)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — Poetry — 1993)
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (1994)