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Title: poetry from Vietnam
Review: The poetry of Visions of War, Dreams of Peace is moving, in part because most of the poems have been written by women who were nurses on active duty during the U.S. war in Vietnam. From their position, they could speak of what they saw as the deaths continued to mount all around. Many of the poems are awkward and sentimental, many rely on limp rhymes, many wear their hearts on their sleeves. Most ache with wounds that will never heal. The authors' courageous struggle to face the eternal suffering of war, to try to find words to express how others' suffering has deeply moved them, gives some of these works a rough edge that cuts the reader to the soul.
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