Product Description: Poetry. "Kevin Bowen's poems are powerful, authoritative and essential. They bring news from a world much of America has turned its back on, and they do so without bitterness or rancor, offering instead profound testimony of love and compassionate wisdom...read more

Product Description: Hope Wilson, a correspondent for New York Times and her husband, Wil, a world-renown archaeologist, are living, during his sabbatical, in Washington D.C. Hope happens to witness the crash of Freedom Airway's Flight 2652 into an oil refinery, and suddenly they are catapulted into the blinding media limelight...read more

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Product Description: Widely considered the most important poet of his generation, Duy began his career as a writer on the battlefields of Vietnam. The power of his highly-crafted poetry stems from its distinct sense of time and place, his unrelenting honesty, and his deep compassion...read more

Product Description: These are poems of leave taking and of return, poems that record the experience of rural and urban isolation, of dislocation and violence, the histories of war and reconciliation in our century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Includes poems by Vietnamese soldiers and officials written during the period of wars against the French and Americans. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This epic novel presents a sweeping portrait of war and peace in northern Vietnam from the defeat of the French to the mid-1980s. The story follows the odyssey of Giang Minh Sai, the son of a Confucian scholar in the rural Red River delta, from his early childhood through his decorated service during the American War and his later efforts to adapt to the postwar world of urban Ha Noi...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

American, Vietnamese, and Central American writers contributed poems and short stories describing first-hand experiences of battle and the aftermath of the Vietnam War and conflicts in Central America.

Poems offer a fresh perspective on the Vietnam War and the experiences of soldiers and civilians there