Bruce Weigl's Song of Napalm is another collection of poems dealing with the impact of the Vietnam War. Robert Stone says in the introduction, "Bruce Weigl's poetry is a refusal to forget. It is an angry assertion of the youth and life that was spent in Vietnam with such vast prodigality, as though youth and life were infinite. Through his honesty and toughmindedness, he undertakes the traditional duty of the poet: in the face of randomness and terror to subject things themselves to the power of art and thus bring them within the compass of moral comprehension." Weigl takes readers on a journey to Vietnam in the late 1960s and explores the anxiety he feels as a soldier in a strange nation. Each poem's narrator carefully observes his surroundings, detailing the corner laundry, the hotel, the jungle, and his fellow soldiers.
Song of Napalm by Bruce Weigl
Song of Napalm by Bruce Weigl
Song of Napalm by Bruce Weigl
Bruce Weigl's Song of Napalm is another collection of poems dealing with the impact of the Vietnam War. Robert Stone says in the introduction, "Bruce Weigl's poetry is a refusal to forget. It is an angry assertion of the youth and life that was spent in Vietnam with such vast prodigality, as though youth and life were infinite. Through his honesty and toughmindedness, he undertakes the traditional duty of the poet: in the face of randomness and terror to subject things themselves to the power of art and thus bring them within the compass of moral comprehension." Weigl takes readers on a journey to Vietnam in the late 1960s and explores the anxiety he feels as a soldier in a strange nation. Each poem's narrator carefully observes his surroundings, detailing the corner laundry, the hotel, the jungle, and his fellow soldiers.