"Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of America's most revered military veteran writers, Bruce Weigl brings readers face-to-face with our country's legacy of violence, the suffering of combat PTSD, and what it means to be truly haunted. Taking its cue from James Wright's goal to write, "the poetry of a grown man," the poems in Apostle of Desire juxtapose the peace and comfort offered by the natural world with the bruising intensity of manmade violence. These sudden tonal shifts express a vulnerability and extremity of feeling that strips audiences' own emotions bare, leading readers to…mehr
"Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of America's most revered military veteran writers, Bruce Weigl brings readers face-to-face with our country's legacy of violence, the suffering of combat PTSD, and what it means to be truly haunted. Taking its cue from James Wright's goal to write, "the poetry of a grown man," the poems in Apostle of Desire juxtapose the peace and comfort offered by the natural world with the bruising intensity of manmade violence. These sudden tonal shifts express a vulnerability and extremity of feeling that strips audiences' own emotions bare, leading readers to question their roles as bystanders and consumers of violent media. In sharing his intertwining feelings of love and shame for both country and self, Weigl places readers into the role of the watcher and opens a window into the traumas of the Vietnam War and life's daily battles with PTSD. The honesty of Weigl's poetry exposes the ghosts of pain while still witnessing the glories of love, nature, and his ongoing experiences with the rich daily life of contemporary Vietnam. Readers will face the solitude of regret and the hopeful pursuit of redemption--remembering the past and looking toward the future"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Bruce Weigl is the author of over twenty books of poetry, translations and essays, most recently Among Elms, in Ambush (BOA, 2021). His book, The Abundance of Nothing (Northwestern University Press, 2012) was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harvard Review, and Harpers, among a wide variety of magazines and journals. Weigl lives in Oberlin, OH.
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To the Reader My Corona Landslide Loving the Jungle Blues Tender Lotus The Preponderance of the Great Splitting Apart, (Homage to Emily D.) Mưa Xuân Written the Day Mr. X Left Prison Thinking About Her Outside of Quảng Trị City, 1968 All that I Need Verse Thirteen Evening Before Desire in Hà Nội Victim of Love The First Time I Heard Your Name it was Different Autumn, End of Everything Attending a Meeting of High Officials The Dangers of Searching the Photographs of Renato Sandoval Sky Epistolary to a Brother How Odd Our Grief The New Road Neighborhood Showdown Empty A Simple Lesson Why I Love my Doctor Here I am My Bill Evans Small Autumn Festival Song for Xia Lu Loving the Thai Binh River Ghosts The Quality of Mental Health Care at the VA The Inevitability of Things Why I Flunked Philosophy 301 Being and Listening Waiting for my Father’s Bus Bodies Tôi đi bộ quanh hồ Hà Lê Weight of Rain The Ambiguity of his Intentions Apostle of Desire Homage to the Gecko Saying Goodbye to Achill A Vision Uvalde The Names of Loss in English I Went Mental For Bella, Dancing An English Novel Whoever They Were The Lake Will Take You Home Monk at Trấn Quốc Pagoda The History of the Blues in Hà Nội Hồ Gươm Romance Hàng Khay Rain Hồ Gươm Moment Our Fear of Hồ Gươm Berserk Now, Unattached Some Words for my Grandchildren Marching with the Dead on Bà Triệu A Brief Epistemology of Longing The Priority of Paradigms for Her In the Presence of Sympathetic Ghosts Dark Barges Churn the River White in the Moon Meditation at Bao Vinh Among Roses What Nhung Wrote Down Temporal Reality Take Out for A. Red Bridge on Hoan Kiem Lake Night Message, From a Friend Going Back An Ars Poetica Notes
To the Reader My Corona Landslide Loving the Jungle Blues Tender Lotus The Preponderance of the Great Splitting Apart, (Homage to Emily D.) Mưa Xuân Written the Day Mr. X Left Prison Thinking About Her Outside of Quảng Trị City, 1968 All that I Need Verse Thirteen Evening Before Desire in Hà Nội Victim of Love The First Time I Heard Your Name it was Different Autumn, End of Everything Attending a Meeting of High Officials The Dangers of Searching the Photographs of Renato Sandoval Sky Epistolary to a Brother How Odd Our Grief The New Road Neighborhood Showdown Empty A Simple Lesson Why I Love my Doctor Here I am My Bill Evans Small Autumn Festival Song for Xia Lu Loving the Thai Binh River Ghosts The Quality of Mental Health Care at the VA The Inevitability of Things Why I Flunked Philosophy 301 Being and Listening Waiting for my Father’s Bus Bodies Tôi đi bộ quanh hồ Hà Lê Weight of Rain The Ambiguity of his Intentions Apostle of Desire Homage to the Gecko Saying Goodbye to Achill A Vision Uvalde The Names of Loss in English I Went Mental For Bella, Dancing An English Novel Whoever They Were The Lake Will Take You Home Monk at Trấn Quốc Pagoda The History of the Blues in Hà Nội Hồ Gươm Romance Hàng Khay Rain Hồ Gươm Moment Our Fear of Hồ Gươm Berserk Now, Unattached Some Words for my Grandchildren Marching with the Dead on Bà Triệu A Brief Epistemology of Longing The Priority of Paradigms for Her In the Presence of Sympathetic Ghosts Dark Barges Churn the River White in the Moon Meditation at Bao Vinh Among Roses What Nhung Wrote Down Temporal Reality Take Out for A. Red Bridge on Hoan Kiem Lake Night Message, From a Friend Going Back An Ars Poetica Notes
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