With all the breathtaking imagery and lyric fury that characterizes his acclaimed poetry, Weigl explores the central experience of his life as a writer and a man--the Vietnam War, which tore his life apart and in return gave him his poetic voice.
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With all the breathtaking imagery and lyric fury that characterizes his acclaimed poetry, Weigl explores the central experience of his life as a writer and a man--the Vietnam War, which tore his life apart and in return gave him his poetic voice.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed. By the Author. The first edition is stated, 208 pages. "In this piercingly honest memoir, Bruce Weigl, who has established himself as one of our finest American poets, explores the central experience of his life as a writer and a man: the Vietnam War, which torn his life apart and in return gave him his poetic voice." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. Signed by the author on the title page.
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Very good in Very good jacket. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. ix, [5], 208 pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Chronicles the author's life by focusing on his experience in the Vietnam War and showing how he has coped with the aftermath by turning to poetry and family. Bruce Weigl (born January 27, 1949, Lorain, Ohio) is an American contemporary poet whose work engages profoundly with experience of both Americans and Vietnamese during and after the Vietnam war. Weigl enlisted in the United States Army shortly after his 18th birthday and spent three years in the service. He served in the Vietnam War from December 1967 to December 1968 and received the Bronze Star. When he returned to the United States, Weigl obtained a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a Master of Arts Degree in Writing/American and British Literature from the University of New Hampshire. Weigl's first full-length collection of poems, A Romance, was published in 1979. Afterwards, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1979, he was an assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and later held the same position at Old Dominion University. Weigl additionally served as the president of the Associated Writing Programs. He published a memoir that year titled The Circle of Hanh: A Memoir. Many of Weigl's poems are inspired by the time he spent in the U.S. Army and Vietnam. In The Circle of Hanh, Weigl writes, "The war took away my life and gave me poetry in return...the fate the world has given me is to struggle to write powerfully enough to draw others into the horror." Bruce Weigl has a Vietnamese adopted daughter named H nh Nguy n Weigl, whom he received from an orphanage in 1996. At that time he told the orphanage that: "Today I receive from you a Vietnamese child. I promised that in the future I will return a Vietnamese lady to you. I will never change her into an American". Indeed, Weigl's family have been trying their best to preserve the Vietnamese elements in H nh Nguy n. For example, they usually encourage her to speak Vietnamese, eat Vietnamese food, and have arranged many meetings between H nh Nguy n and Weigl's Vietnamese friends. Weigl's effort was highly appreciated by Vietnamese media. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: The Vietnam War remains a haunting subtext for acclaimed poet Weigl, whose 1967 induction into the U.S. Army and year in Vietnam led to his passion for that country's poetry and culture. In this eager memoir, Weigl recounts his life story--from his hard-bitten childhood in Lorain, Ohio, to a redemptive meeting in 1996 with his adopted daughter-to-be at an orphanage outside Hanoi. Weigl's reverence for storytelling, forged the day a Red Cross worker flung Crime and Punishment at him as he lay sick at a base camp in An Khe, serves as a touchstone throughout this book; he seeks salvation by way of "the great chain of stories." Most memorable are stories from his Zagreb-born grandfather, who oversaw the birth of his first child by holding a gun to the doctor's head to ensure the child's safe delivery. Weigl's own stories seem to grasp their elemental truth.
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