Poetic healing
Subtitle: a Vietnam veteran's journey from a communication perspective
By: Mark E. Huglen, critical commentary ; Basil B. Clark, poems and plays ; afterword by Bernard L. Brock.
Contributors: Clark, Basil B.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Parlor Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Clark, Basil B. -- Criticism and interpretation.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the conflict.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Mental health.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Poetry.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Drama.; Bibliotherapy.
Genres: Poetry.; Drama.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-297).
Table of contents: title: The enrollment and recognition of pain; title: Turn it off, please; title: A series of poems on Tinnitus; title: A dialogue : "Tinnitus" part I and part II; title: Commentary : the problem of pain; title: Reflections of war in a postwar terrain; title: Poetic recollections of war; title: Remembrances associated with genre of war; title: Starkle, starkle, little twink; title: To choose or not to choose; title: That is the consequence; title: Commentary : the root metaphor, and reflections; title: Engaging postwar zones of combat; title: The question of God and patriotism; title: Obstacle battlers anonymous; title: Sanity, of questioning; title: Internal and external battles; title: Commentary : metaphysics and other dynamics; title: Burning the postwar terrain; title: The complicated self; title: The relationships; title: In and near the grave; title: Commentary : the dreadful shadowlands; title: Beyond the postwar mindset; title: Water; title: Seeds for growth; title: Growing and reaching; title: Commentary : living in the garden; title: Conclusion; title: Afterword : transformation to a symbolic reality / Bernard L. Brock.