On the Shores of Welcome Home

Bruce Weigl author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:BOA Editions, Limited

Published:24th Oct '19

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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On the Shores of Welcome Home cover

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  • America’s premier living military veteran poet reveals the long scars left by Vietnam and the ghosts encountered at life’s end.In this Isabella Gardner Award-winning collection of poems, Bruce Weigl meditates on the ghosts and the grace one encounters in life’s second act. A celebrated poet and veteran of the Vietnam War, Weigl offers a nuanced sense of aging as a departure and death as a returning home. With a sage’s eye for mindfulness and a soldier’s longing for the country where he served, Weigl’s poems reveal the long scars left by Vietnam and the new possibilities one encounters in the wake of life-altering experiences.

    • Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2013 (United States)

    ISBN: 9781950774098

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: unknown

    100 pages