Song of Napalm: Poems
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ISBN: 0871134713 / Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, January 1994
A prize-winning poet and Vietnam veteran presents a poetic record of Vietnam that embraces the country's beauty, the repulsiveness of war, unheated battle scars, and extraordinary experiences of ordinary people
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“Song of Napalm is more than a collection of beautifully wrought, heartwrenching, and often very funny poems. It’s a narrative, the story of an American innocent’s descent into hell and his excruciating return to life on the surface. Weigl may have written the best novel so far about the Vietnam War, and along the way a dozen truly memorable poems.” — Russell Banks
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