Research Catalog

Title

Playing basketball with the Viet Cong / Kevin Bowen.

Author

Bowen, Kevin, 1947-

Publication

Willimantic, Conn. : Curbstone Press ; East Haven, Conn. : Distributed by InBook, 1994.

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Details

Description

63 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

The Vietnam War and its aftermath by a man who fought it. In The Quiet Americans he writes: "Two years since the American soldier returned, / told how he'd turned his claymores / facing up that night: so the warning, / This side to the enemy, pointed to the sky. / His one small act of protest in the war."

Series Statement

Contemporary poets series

Uniform Title

Contemporary poets series (Curbstone Press)

Subjects

• 1961-1975
• Vietnam War > (1961-1975)
• War poetry
• Poetry
• War poetry, American
• Soldiers' writings, American
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Poetry

Genre/Form

• War poetry.
• Poetry.

Contents

• Nhat Da Trach: One Night Swamp -- First Casualty -- Cities of Dust -- War Story for Paul -- Rappelling -- Made in Ha Noi -- Ferry Crossing North of Hal Phong -- Incoming -- Prodigies -- Temple at Quan Loi, 1969 -- Pictures of the Buddha -- President Diem's Motorcade -- Willie Dancing -- Banded Kraits -- Graves at Quang Tri -- Nui Ba Den: Black Virgin Mountain -- Missing -- Thien Quang Lake -- The Arts of Love and Hydrology as Practiced in Ha Noi -- Body Count: The Dead at Tay Ninh -- Banking Lesson, 1970 -- At the Tomb of Tu Duc -- Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong -- Peasant Fare -- Gelatin Factory -- In the Village of Yen So -- Pictures from Quang Nam -- Lotus Tea -- The Children's Tet -- A Conical Hat -- The Temple of Literature -- The Tay So'n Armies -- The Quiet Americans.
• Chung's House: The Liberation of Ha Noi -- Song in the Green Light -- Midnight, The Cuu Long -- River Music -- Reunion -- The Snail Gatherers of Co Loa Thanh.

ISBN

• 1880684209
• 9781880684207

LCCN

94030715

OCLC

• ocm30914268
• 30914268
• SCSB-2038687

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library