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This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston's healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. "Vetrans of War, Vetrans of Peace" includes accounts from people that grew up in military families, served as medics in the thick of war, or came home to homelessness. All struggle with trauma -- post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and other consequences of war and violence. Through their extraordinary writings, readers witness worlds coming apart and being put back together again through liberating insight, community, and the deep transformation that is possible only by coming to grips with the past.
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Finding mighty triumph or might,
August 21, 2007
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By ladysoldier, Park Ridge, NJ
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"This book houses essays, poetry, and prose style writing in its embeddings.
Nonfiction, and fiction, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, edited by Maxine Hong Kingston, is a somewhat more modest version of patriotic stealth for honor on the part of a Vietnamese woman who grew out of the Vietnam War. While her other books are covered with flashy front cover art pieces, this is subtle and plainspoken. This is a world that is open and similar to heritage pieces, it forms to serve quick the receival of new beloved soldiers and victims of war because it has learnt of the new Americans that are coming from the far East after the war. The whole book is about the soldier, the occasional Vietnamese person, and their diabolical battle to get through their events of the Vietnam war. Therefore, at first and second look, this book is about all the other people that put together a certain botanical world for Kingston, a certain poetry reading or confession-through-art type of world. The retention being the main next thing to discuss in the soldier's life, not the attention or the reasoning behind attending to warfare, it is important to note that what various things that Maxine has chosen to include in her compilation makes for an interesting subscription on reading any time around. But if read to purposely find the tone and setting that one wants, it purposes a totally whole different satisfying feel. I still haven't gotten all the way through, but I get the feeling that if I do that, I will lose taste for which one is the loose-tooth unless those are the favorite poems which are delightfully sunny like looking into an old camera's lens and hearing children laughing or your grown nephew speaking. It's delightful, did I say that? Delightful."
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