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The shores of welcome home : poems / Bruce Weigl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weigl, Bruce, 1949- author.
- Series:
- American poets continuum series ; Number 175.
- American poets continuum series ; Number 175
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Psychological aspects--Poetry.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Veterans--Mental health--United States--Poetry.
- Veterans.
- Older veterans--United States--Poetry.
- Older veterans.
- War poetry, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (101 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, New York : Boa Editions, Ltd., [2019]
- Summary:
- America's premier living military veteran poet reveals the long scars left by Vietnam and the ghosts encountered at life's end.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph 1
- Epigraph 2: Against Forgetting (Two)
- The Elephant Gift in the Room
- You Can Hide
- Painted Box Buried in the Yard
- Grace Being Saved
- Anecdote of the Impresario of My Brain
- Some Stages of the Mayfly
- Against Poetry
- River of Blood in One Man
- Prayer for My Teacher
- Against Forgetting (One)
- Fragments in Translation from the Vietnamese
- Lotus
- Reading the River
- Ode to Cabeza de Vaca
- A Late Corrupted Flash
- Not My Brain Talkin'
- Words for My Pal Who Is Dead
- The Long-Term Consequences of the Convoy Leading to Pegasus in the Fallen World
- The World Part II
- The Unbearable Weight of a Friend
- Act of Contrition
- Altarpiece of the Misericordia
- Lotus, West Lake, 2010
- The Hà Nôi Winds Bringing Winter to the Old-World Elegy
- The Ineffable as Sad
- On the Shores of Welcome Home
- Making the Conscious Darkness
- The Beauty
- Bodhisattva Blurred by Lilies in the Garden
- My Araby
- Village Parable
- The Love I Thought Would Save Me
- C, F, and G
- Modern Paradox Sutra Fragment
- Moon Sutra
- Love in Space
- The Sixty-sixth Year of My Imagining
- For Night
- Dismantling Bruce Weigl at Gate Number 7
- My Father's Money
- A Mishap
- Sweeping in the Temple
- What If I Told You
- Oh Denial
- For a Friend Whose Son Is in Prison
- Not an Elegy for F.
- Blue Late Elegy for R.
- The Clock on the Tower in Hà Nôi
- Mr. O.'s Peach Tree
- Her Discontent like Lava Soap Burns in the Eyes
- A Small Song for Immigrants
- The Failure of Cognitive Therapy on April 26, 20
- For Steven, Boone School, 1956
- Song of H.
- Kokura Bar
- Thinking About the Chinese Poet
- My When I Have Fears
- Crazy with His Anguish and Dumb with Grief
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Colophon.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-942683-90-1
- OCLC:
- 1105632432
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