Among elms, in ambush / by Bruce Weigl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weigl, Bruce, 1949- author.

Series:

American reader series ; v. 37.

American reader series ; no. 37

Language:

English

Physical Description:

148 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2021.

Summary:

"Celebrated Army combat veteran's reflections born from the trauma of PTSD and the contemplative practices undertaken to survive it"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Tale of the Tortoise

The Man in the Chair

According to Loop Quantum Gravity Theory

All at Once

The People Have Spoken and They Are Ugly

The Woman on the Train

I Hate to Say This

Jesus Saves and Jesus Heals

To Him, Who Is Me

Draft of Final Chorus I

Draft of Final Chorus II

The Problem with Shapes in the Night Trees

Homewood Nineteen Fifty Something

This Back-Porch Rocker My Prison

War Story

Miami Nights

To the Reader, on the Dharma

Love Letter to Myself and to Mule

Mourning Kham Thien Street

Saturday Night in Bangkok with Nguyen Thi Hanh I

Saturday Night in Bangkok with Nguyen Thi Hanh II

Out Here

Travel Writing, I

The Problem with Desire

Apres Flashback for My Good Doctor

Wade Park VA

Sometimes How It Feels

Mourning the Postmodern

Black Swans in the Garden of Perfect Splendor

Frog Melody

For a Friend Who Died

My Final Job Application

Where I Am When I'm Not Here

From a Soldier's Diary

Ha Noi Morning

Deep Water

Elegy for Lux

Blowing Rock in Autumn

Trigger

Elegy for C.D.

Elegy for Mahnke

The Shadow Knows

Small Song for Anna

Weather Report for Riley H.

Fool That I Am

Razor

The New Law

Watching My Great-Uncle Shave, Johnstown PA, Circa 1954

Someone on the Train Said Mecca

Crow Allegro

Elegy for My Father and the Man in the Moon

At a Car Wash in Little Rock

Lost

Tell Them Everything

Steve

Glory

Summer Flash 2017

For Francis

Fire Fish

Liquor Was Involved

Epistle to God

Our Recent Way

Some Ohio Cows

The Name of Beauty on Ng6 Quyen Street

Fa-Hien's Magic Cow Four Hundred Years Before Christ

Lost in Beijing

Milkweed Pods

Elegy for One Soul

Earring

Camp Evans Blues

Ohio Pastoral

Elegy for Zora Grasa

Us Children

Cognitive Blue

Lunch at the Wade Park VA Cafeteria, Early Twenty-First Century

Winter and the New Year

Cow Moves in with Bison Herd, Warsaw, Poland, 2018

Clinical Notes Number Ninety-One

When Steve Pulled Through

No Irritable Reaching

The Still Unravished Bryn of Quietude

Clinical Notes Number Ninety-Two

Standing Before the Arch of Triumph in Bucharest, I Think of Lorain, Ohio and of Quang Tri Province, Viet Nam

Sutra

Drawing I

Bad Day

Evening Prayer

Thang Long

On the Road to B6 Da Pagoda

On Thien Quang Lake, Nguyen Du, Ha Noi, Spring 2019

Living in a City Without Guns

Hot Waters

Waiting for the Cardinals

What the Teacher Said

The Price of Roses in Ha Noi

Driving to Lang Chiia

Meditation on Yet Kieu Street, Ha Noi, About Ohio

Words for the Dancing Wu Li Masters

Fishing in Ha Noi

Caged Bird in Ha Noi

Metaphysical There

Coffee in Ha Noi

What I Learned from the Night Bird in Ha Noi

Blood, for X.

Outside Quang Tri City, 1968

Mtia Xuan

From a History of Many Lives.

Other Format:

Online version: Weigl, Bruce, 1949- Among elms, in ambush.

ISBN:

9781950774418

1950774414

OCLC:

1243351201