Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War (Paperback)

Associate Professor Department of English Subarno Chattarji; Subarno Chattarji
9780199247110
0-19-924711-0

In this unique and significant addition to Vietnam studies, Memories of a Lost War analyzes the poems written by American veterans, protest poets, and Vietnamese, within political, aesthetic, and cultural.

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contexts. Drawing on a wealth of material often published in small presses and journals, the book highlights the horrors of war and the continuing traumas of veterans in post-Vietnam America. In its inclusion of Vietnamese perspectives, the book marks a departure from earlier works that have largely concentrated on Vietnam as a war rather than a country.