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Walter McDonald After the Noise of Saigon
Univ of Massachusetts Pr 1988 0870236016 / 9780870236013 Paperback Good
0870236016 0870236016 Ex-library. From Library Journal The Vietnam War lingers like a shadow behind these tough but gentle poems about hardscrabble life in Texas. Hunting owls, loading a shotgun, and ranching are all made poignant by memories of the terror in Saigon. "We believe/ we will know what we need when we find it," he says about "regions under seige"the mind of the veteran. Psychic disability from mortar attacks must be resolved by a lonely pilgrimage amid cactus and rattlers "like tribal gods." Although a Jack London view predominates, ("Living on hardscrabble, a man is less/ than a wolf and knows it, carries a rifle/ in season or not"), McDonald's is a triumph not merely of survival but of remaining decent in the face of adversity. Frank Allen, Allentown Coll., Center Valley, Pa. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Review After The Noise Of Saigon Backpacking The San Juan Balance Between The Moon And Me Between Two Shores Of Toledo Breathe Deeply, And Relax Bull Caught In A Storm On Hardscrabble The Children's Hour Christmas Bells, Saigon Cousin Billy And The Weather Crashes Real And Imagined Crawling Through Caverns Crosswind Landings Estacado The Eyes In Joe Hall's Shed Fathers And Sons (5) Flood Fishing The Food Pickers Of Saigon For Friends Missing In Action Goat Ranching Graves Of Unknown Soldiers The Guilt Of Survivors In Green Pastures Jet Flight, The Early Years Living On Buried Water Loading A Shotgun, At Twelve The Middle Years My Father Quits Another Job Nearing The End Of A Century New Guy Night Missions The Night Of Rattlesnake Chili Nothing To Do But Start Over An Object Set In Motion Old Men Fishing At Brownwood The One That Got Away Praise Reasons For Taking Risks Rig-sitting The Rodeo Fool Setting The Torch To Stubble Sundown War Games Watching For Ships Off Padre Island The Way The World Ends We Called It Entering Heaven When Children Think You Can Do Anything The Winter They Bombed Pearl Harbor With A Woman Who Looks Like Crystal Gayle -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder?
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