A prize-winning poet and Vietnam veteran presents a poetic record of Vietnam that embraces the country's beauty, the repulsiveness of war, unheated battle scars, and extraordinary experiences of ordinary people.
The author explores the impact of the Vietnam War on his life, discussing how his experiences led him eventually to seek solace in poetry; and tells how he was finally delivered from the ghosts of the war when he traveled back to Hanoi to adopt a Vietnamese child.
