My selections were:
- Of a Forgetful Sea by Kelli Russell Agodon
- Freedom From Speech by Terry Tempest Williams
- On A Photograph of a Severed Hand by Jim Shugrue
I was taken by the number of poets my own age who were anthologized in this book. I recall seeing a seventeen year old, s few 20's and 30 somethings, but it is amazing the number that are my age. Men and women who were part of the Vietnam generation. There are a lot of profoundly committed voices that experienced the tragedy of our misadventure in southeast Asia and continue to be guided by the wisdom they acquired through that experience. Unfortunately we were lead into Iraq by those who failed to learn from the mistakes made in the 1960's.
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