Last Lambs: New and Selected Poems of Vietnam

By Bill Bauer

Last Lambs was crafted to give voice to the inner war of the soldier in the field and the ghost "on the other side of the sky." These poems guide the reader through the climate of the times, going to Vietnam, being transformed by the war, and the lifelong search for reconciliation. Bauer avoids the verbiage of diatribe and makes the war real by paying close attention to detail, allowing the war's natural language and vivid imagery to evoke its own terrible legacy. Veterans have described his work as authentic and haunting, and it has been said that if Tim O'Brien wrote poetry it would sound something like this. Last Lambs gives insight into the moral ambivalence and personal frustration of the American soldier during the Vietnam era.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886157898
• ISBN13: 9781886157897
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kans
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"