“Beautiful. . . . Bowen captures the spirituality of Vietnam.” -- Oliver Stone Excerpt    Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong by Kevin Bowen “Observant, honest, refined...and delicately brutal when it has to be, Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong evocatively suggests not only who we may have been then, but who we might become.” -- Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (View all blurbs.) Foreword by Carolyn Forché “This is a different kind of ‘Vietnam’ book: this collection evolves around a natural empathy between actors on a human stage that’s almost mythic in scope and concerns. Here’s a collection of poetry that expands for its readers and listeners. This poetry is shaped out of a love for people, as well as a painful passion garnered from the experience of war. One feels that a witness is sharing heartfelt moments when reading [this book].” -- Yusef Komunyakaa Chosen “Pick of the Year” by The Progressive (1994)  paperback /ISBN 978-1-880684-20-7 / $10.95 Ordering Information

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