In the Shadow of the Annamese Mountains

By Doug Rawlings

A Note from the Author"I was first introduced to the idea of political poetry on October 18, 1970, about midnight, in an all-night Harvard Square corner bookstore. A few months before that encounter I had returned from the war in Viet Nam. To say that I was confused and angry is an understatement. I was also somewhat lost. Then on that fateful night I found this wonderful collection of poems by Denise Levertov that captured her journey to North Viet Nam as a peace activist. This was the first serious "discussion" I had read from and about "my" war. And true to what Robert Bly considers effective political poetry, Levertov used the personal to open up the universal. I was captured, and unlike my response to military "service," I did not want to escape. Instead, I sought out more of her work and other poets and, eventually, began to write my own poems...."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1678174254
• ISBN13: 9781678174255
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Lulu Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"