INHERITING THE WAR Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees

Fifty years after the Vietnam War, this anthology by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees-American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Diaspora, Hmong, Australian, and others-confronts war and its aftermath. What emerges is an affecting portrait of the effects of war and family-an intercultural, generational dialogue on silence, memory, landscape, imagination, Agent Orange, displacement, postwar trauma, and the severe realities that are carried home. Including such acclaimed voices as Viet Thanh Nguyen, Karen Russell, Terrance Hayes, Suzan-Lori Parks, Nick Flynn, and Ocean Vuong, Inheriting the War enriches the discourse of the Vietnam War and provides a collective conversation that attempts to transcend the recursion of history.

"Each unique work in Inheriting the War embraces a collective that aims to engage through some daring and passionate truths calibrated by bravery." -Yusef Komunyakaa, from the foreword

About the author

Laren McClung is a poet and the author of Between Here and Monkey Mountain. She teaches at New York University.

Summary

Descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story.

Product details

• Assisted by: Laren McClung (Editor), McClung Laren (Editor), Komunyakaa Yusef (Foreword)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 08.12.2017
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry
• EAN: 9780393354287
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35428-7
• Pages: 432
• Dimensions (packing): 15.7 x 23.4 x 3 cm
• Weight (packing): 532 g
• Subjects: american, memory, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Ocean Vuong, family, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poems, PTSD, anthology, Displacement, Hmong, Anthologies: general, Australian, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Anthologies (non-poetry), Poetry anthologies (various poets), Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War, Vietnamese diaspora, Karen Russell, Terrance Hayes, suzan-lori parks, nick flynn, emily brandt, postwar trauma