The Viet Arcane

by Jack Hirschman

The Viet Arcane is a poetic vision of the Viet Nam War written in the early 1970's. It was inspired by a book by Ren Depestre, A Rainbow for the Christian West, in which a series of poems enacts an invasion by the Vodou Loas - or Haitian gods and goddesses - into the southern and most reactionary part of the United States. Hirschman imagines a similar invasion manifested by Vietnamese Mediums who follow the Dao Mau (the Worship of the Mother) religion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587902702
• ISBN13: 9781587902703
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Regent Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"