Dreams, Vietnam

"This book is a rare gift. Using a spare style that startles with its directness, Marc Levy transforms the dreams of almost forty years into what often feel like surreal prose poems, with disturbingly realistic details of war juxtaposed with domestic details of childhood and civilian life. One minute the dreamer is in Vietnam, the next he's in a childhood park; he's a school child, an adolescent, but simultaneously a soldier. His brother, his parents, his dog appear; familiar objects-an umbrella, a small balsa wood plane-create disconcerting contrasts with weapons of war. There's emotional and moral complexity here: the dreamer stabs someone and dresses his wounds; he kills and he dies; he feels shame and rage, and he weeps. Profound thanks to Marc Levy for sharing these powerful, intimate dreams, reminding us: how deep are the wounds of war."

Martha Collins, editor-a-large, Field


Author: Marc Levy
Publisher: Winter Street Press
Published: 01/27/2017
Pages: 114
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
ISBN13: 9780692776377
ISBN10: 0692776370
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Dreams

About the Author
Marc Levy was an infantry medic with the First Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970. His decorations include the Combat Medic Badge, Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, the Air Medal, and Arcom. His work has appeared in New Millennium Writings, Cutthroat, Slant, War, Literature and the Arts, CounterPunch, Best American Erotica 2000, Stone Canoe, New Madrid and Mudfish. It is forthcoming in VVA's The Veteran. He won the 2016 Syracuse University Institute for Veterans and Military Families Writing Prize. To see more of his work visit Medic in the Green Time.com.

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