Combat and Campus: Writing Through War

Grunseth, Annette Langlois; Langlois, Peter R

ISBN 10: 1940863120 / ISBN 13: 9781940863122

Verlag: ELM Grove Press, 2021

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers I-9781940863122

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An infantryman's riveting letters from Vietnam, preserved for fifty years by his family, share experiences of living the war that are honest, raw, and graphic. A journalist and soldier with the 25th Infantry Division, riding armored personnel carriers into rice paddies, engaging in night time sweeps of the combat area, Sgt. Peter Langlois chronicles the smells, sights, and sounds during some of the darkest days of the war from 1968 - '69. He would return home to a nation still protesting the war in which his younger sister, Annette, had walked to class behind National Guardsmen marching across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Their correspondence and her poetry offer a unique perspective of the war in Vietnam and social change happening at home. Together, they share what was learned and what was lost.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Annette Langlois Grunseth is a poet/freelance writer with a BA in Radio/TV/Film and Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a lifetime member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her poems have appeared in Wisconsin Academy Review, Midwest Prairie Review, SOUNDINGS: Door County in Poetry, The Poetry Box/Poeming Pigeons, The Ariel Anthology and other publications. Her poem "Lost Seed" from her forthcoming book "Becoming Trans-Parent, One Family's Jounrey of Gender Transition" won an Honorable Mention in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Muse Contest in 2016. Her readings from the book have been well-received in churches, support groups as well as poetry/bookstore venues.

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Titel: Combat and Campus: Writing Through War
Verlag: ELM Grove Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New