Human Shrapnel [1991] - Bill Shields

"I spent eleven months & ten days in a war/& the last twenty years pinning myself against a wall/waiting on the door to close & the voices to fade/with enough air for three minutes/of peace"

 

Powerful and brutally honest collection of poetry from a Vietnam veteran that describes the horror of war and its aftermath, a book "exploding with the energy of rage and frustration," in the words of Hubert Selby, Jr.


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