A Kind of Heaven: Poems of Viet Nam by Deborah Ford.
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After her travel to Viet Nam, Ford wrote these 34 poems about her experiences and observations of contemporary culture in both the northern and southern regions of that re-unified country. Of course, for all members of her generation in the background of her visit is the memory of the Viet Nam Conflict. From “Sampan on the Mekong”:
America’s first TV war, my first war.
This is what I remember:
The river, a soldier’s uncertainty
Of living to see tomorrow.
After what felt like a lifetime of wounds,
Now becomes a kind of heaven.
All phantoms have taken their leave.
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