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Author Weigl, Bruce, 1949- author.

Title On the shores of welcome home : poems / Bruce Weigl
Edition First edition
Published Rochester, NY : Boa Editions, Ltd., 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series American poets continuum series ; no. 175
Contents Machine generated contents note: Part One -- Elephant Gift in the Room -- You Can Hide -- Painted Box Buried in the Yard -- Grace Being Saved -- Anecdote of the Impresario of My Brain -- Some Stages of the Mayfly -- Against Poetry -- River of Blood in One Man -- Prayer for My Teacher -- Against Forgetting (One) -- Fragments in Translation from the Vietnamese -- Lotus -- Reading the River -- Ode to Cabeza de Vaca -- Late Corrupted Flash -- Not My Brain Talkin' -- Words for My Pal Who Is Dead -- Long-Term Consequences of the Convoy Leading to Pegasus in the Fallen World -- World Part II -- Unbearable Weight of a Friend -- Act of Contrition -- Altarpiece of the Misericordia -- Lotus, West Lake, 2010 -- Ha Noi Winds Bringing Winter to the Old-World Elegy -- Ineffable as Sad -- Part Two -- On the Shores of Welcome Home -- Part Three -- Making the Conscious Darkness -- Beauty -- Bodhisattva Blurred by Lilies in the Garden -- My Araby -- Village Parable -- Love I Thought Would Save Me -- C, F, and G -- Modern Paradox Sutra Fragment -- Moon Sutra -- Love in Space -- Sixty-sixth Year of My Imagining -- For Night -- Dismantling Bruce Weigl at Gate Number 7 -- My Father's Money -- Mishap -- Sweeping in the Temple -- What If I Told You -- Oh Denial -- For a Friend Whose Son Is in Prison -- Not an Elegy for F. -- Blue Late Elegy for R. -- Clock on the Tower in Ha Noi -- Mr. O's Peach Tree -- Her Discontent like Lava Soap Burns in the Eyes -- Small Song for Immigrants -- Failure of Cognitive Therapy on April 26, 2015 -- For Steven, Boone School, 1956 -- Song of H. -- Kokura Bar -- Thinking About the Chinese Poet -- My When I Have Fears -- Crazy with His Anguish and Dumb with Grief
Summary "America's premier living military veteran poet reveals the long scars left by Vietnam and the ghosts encountered at life's end."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 1, 2019)
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Psychological aspects -- Poetry
Veterans -- Mental health -- United States -- Poetry
Older veterans -- United States -- Poetry
War poetry, American.
Older veterans
Psychological aspects
Veterans -- Mental health
War poetry, American
United States
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781942683902
1942683901
Other Titles Poems. Selections